CVE-2014-1526

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2185-1

Posted Apr 29, 2014

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2185-1 - Bobby Holley, Carsten Book, Christoph Diehl, Gary Kwong, Jan de Mooij, Jesse Ruderman, Nathan Froyd, John Schoenick, Karl Tomlinson, Vladimir Vukicevic and Christian Holler discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. An out of bounds read was discovered in Web Audio. An attacker could potentially exploit this cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, web, denial of service, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2014-1492, CVE-2014-1518, CVE-2014-1519, CVE-2014-1522, CVE-2014-1523, CVE-2014-1524, CVE-2014-1525, CVE-2014-1526, CVE-2014-1528, CVE-2014-1529, CVE-2014-1530, CVE-2014-1531, CVE-2014-1532

SHA-256 | cac7cbb67ced17c78361165cc7c3b566fff48bd23c5d90687e88e4ae5a84c369

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