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Cent OS: CVE-2014-1523: CESA-2014:0449 (thunderbird)

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Cent OS: CVE-2014-1523: CESA-2014:0449 (thunderbird)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/30/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
08/10/2020

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the read_u32 function in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5, Thunderbird before 24.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read and application crash) via a crafted JPEG image.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-firefox
  • centos-upgrade-thunderbird

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