Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2016-20

Memory leak in libstagefright when deleting an array during MP4 processing

Announced
March 8, 2016
Reporter
Jose Martinez, Romina Santillan
Impact
Low
Products
Firefox, Firefox ESR, Thunderbird
Fixed in
  • Firefox 45
  • Firefox ESR 38.7
  • Thunderbird 38.7
  • Thunderbird 45

Description

Security researchers Jose Martinez and Romina Santillan reported a memory leak in the libstagefright library when array destruction occurs during MPEG4 video file processing.

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.

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