CVE-2014-1525 Information

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.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00010.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00033.html http://secunia.com/advisories/59866 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-39.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030164 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2185-1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=989210 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01