Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-53
Buffer overflow in Web Audio Speex resampler
- Announced
- June 10, 2014
- Reporter
- Holger Fuhrmannek
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, SeaMonkey
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 30
- SeaMonkey 2.26.1
Description
Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek used the used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a buffer overflow with the Speex resampler in Web Audio when working with audio content that exceeds expected bounds. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash.