PT-2014-4230 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox+7

Published 2014-10-01 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2014-1577

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 33.0 Firefox ESR versions prior to 31.2 Thunderbird versions prior to 31.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service. This can be achieved by using an invalid custom waveform that triggers a calculation of a negative frequency value, resulting in an out-of-bounds read, memory corruption, and application crash.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 33.0, update to version 33.0 or later. For Firefox ESR versions prior to 31.2, update to version 31.2 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 31.2, update to version 31.2 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2225

ALT-PU-2014-2226

ALT-PU-2015-1464

CESA-2014_1635

CESA-2014_1647

CVE-2014-1577

DSA-3050-1

DSA-3061-1

MGASA-2014-0419

MGASA-2014-0421

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2014:1635

RHSA-2014:1647

RHSA-2014_1635

RHSA-2014_1647

USN-2372-1

USN-2373-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox Esr

Firefox

Red Hat

Suse

Thunderbird

Ubuntu

References · 2333

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_proxy_prototype.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_pdfjs_privilege_escalation.rb · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09815 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8635 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-82.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2715 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8638 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-68.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0826 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0831 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09885 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0805 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-70.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1635.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2706 · Security Note