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MFSA2014-78 SeaMonkey: Further uninitialized memory use during GIF rendering (CVE-2014-1580)

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MFSA2014-78 SeaMonkey: Further uninitialized memory use during GIF rendering (CVE-2014-1580)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
10/15/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/11/2014
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 33.0 does not properly initialize memory for GIF images, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted web page that triggers a sequence of rendering operations for truncated GIF data within a CANVAS element.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-seamonkey-upgrade-2_30_0

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