MFSA2014-27 Firefox: Memory corruption in Cairo during PDF font rendering (CVE-2014-1509)
7
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
03/18/2014
07/25/2018
03/19/2014
08/05/2020
Description
Buffer overflow in the _cairo_truetype_index_to_ucs4 function in cairo, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted extension that renders fonts in a PDF document.
Solution(s)
- mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-24_4
- mozilla-firefox-upgrade-28_0
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