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MFSA2014-58 Thunderbird: Use-after-free in Web Audio due to incorrect control message ordering (CVE-2014-1550)

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MFSA2014-58 Thunderbird: Use-after-free in Web Audio due to incorrect control message ordering (CVE-2014-1550)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/23/2014
Created
07/25/2018
Added
07/28/2014
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the MediaInputPort class in Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by leveraging incorrect Web Audio control-message ordering.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-31_0

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