Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-37
Out of bounds read while decoding JPG images
- Announced
- April 29, 2014
- Reporter
- Abhishek Arya
- Impact
- Moderate
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 29
- Firefox ESR 24.5
- SeaMonkey 2.26
- Thunderbird 24.5
Description
Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a fixed offset out of bounds read issue while decoding specifically formatted JPG format images. This causes a non-exploitable crash.