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Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2015-89

Buffer overflows on Libvpx when decoding WebM video

Announced
August 11, 2015
Reporter
Abhishek Arya
Impact
Critical
Products
Firefox, Firefox ESR, Firefox OS, SeaMonkey
Fixed in
  • Firefox 40
  • Firefox ESR 38.2
  • Firefox OS 2.5
  • SeaMonkey 2.35

Description

Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover two buffer overflow issues in the Libvpx library used for WebM video when decoding a malformed WebM video file. These buffer overflows result in potentially exploitable crashes.

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