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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2013-67

Crash during WAV audio file decoding

Announced
August 6, 2013
Reporter
Aki Helin
Impact
Low
Products
Firefox, SeaMonkey
Fixed in
  • Firefox 23
  • SeaMonkey 2.20

Description

Security researcher Aki Helin from OUSPG used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a crash during the decoding of WAV format audio files in some instances. This crash is not exploitable but could be used for a denial of service (DOS) attack by malicious parties.

In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey products because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts in those products.

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