Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-02
Out of Memory crash when parsing GIF format images
- Announced
- January 26, 2016
- Reporter
- Gustavo Grieco
- Impact
- Moderate
- Products
- Firefox
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 44
Description
Security researcher Gustavo Grieco reported an out of memory crash when loading maliciously crafted GIF format images. Investigation of the issue determined that the root cause was an error in image parsing code during deinterlacing, leading to a potential integer overflow.