CVE-2014-1525

Description

The mozilla::dom::TextTrack::AddCue function in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.26 does not properly perform garbage collection for Text Track Manager variables, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and heap memory corruption) via a crafted VIDEO element in an HTML document.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=989210

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2185-1

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030164

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-39.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/59866

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00033.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00010.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3