Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2014-58
Use-after-free in Web Audio due to incorrect control message ordering
- Announced
- July 22, 2014
- Reporter
- Atte Kettunen
- Impact
- High
- Products
- Firefox, Thunderbird
- Fixed in
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- Firefox 31
- Thunderbird 31
Description
Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Atte Kettunen from OUSPG discovered a use-after-free in Web Audio due to an issue with how control messages for Web Audio are ordered and processed. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash.
In general this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.