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MFSA2014-11 SeaMonkey: Crash when using web workers with asm.js (CVE-2014-1488)

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MFSA2014-11 SeaMonkey: Crash when using web workers with asm.js (CVE-2014-1488)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
02/06/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/08/2014
Modified
05/09/2019

Description

The Web workers implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.24 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving termination of a worker process that has performed a cross-thread object-passing operation in conjunction with use of asm.js.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-seamonkey-upgrade-2_24_0

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