CVE-2014-1540

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2243-1

Posted Jun 12, 2014

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 2243-1 - Gary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Hannes Verschore, Jan de Mooij, Ryan VanderMeulen, Jeff Walden, Kyle Huey, Jesse Ruderman, Gregor Wagner, Benoit Jacob and Karl Tomlinson 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. Various other issues were also addressed.

tags | advisory, denial of service, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2014-1533, CVE-2014-1534, CVE-2014-1536, CVE-2014-1537, CVE-2014-1538, CVE-2014-1540, CVE-2014-1541, CVE-2014-1542

SHA-256 | b79feba3cba1912ed51363c8f6e08424b303751a02636cf89c629cfe06d7a152

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