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CVE-2014-1525

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2014-04-29	mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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CVE-2014-1525 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2014-1525
Phase	Assigned(20140116)

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

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-39.html
CONFIRM	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=989210
FEDORA	FEDORA-2014-5829
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2014:0599
SUSE	openSUSE-SU-2014:0629
UBUNTU	USN-2185-1
SECTRACK	1030163
SECTRACK	1030164
SECUNIA	59866