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Unscored USN-2372-1 12 CVEs

firefox vulnerabilities

Published Oct 14, 2014 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Bobby Holley, Christian Holler, David Bolter, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard,
Carsten Book, Martijn Wargers, Shih-Chiang Chien, Terrence Cole and
Jeff Walden discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user
were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2014-1574, CVE-2014-1575)

Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow during CSS manipulation. If a
user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker
could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via
application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1576)

Holger Fuhrmannek discovered an out-of-bounds read with Web Audio. If a
user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker
could potentially exploit this to steal sensitive information.
(CVE-2014-1577)

Abhishek Arya discovered an out-of-bounds write when buffering WebM video
in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially
crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a
denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with
the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1578)

Michal Zalewski discovered that memory may not be correctly initialized
when rendering a malformed GIF in to a canvas in some circumstances. If
a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker
could potentially exploit this to steal sensitive information.
(CVE-2014-1580)

A use-after-free was discovered during text layout in some circumstances.
If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an
attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via
application crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the
user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1581)

Patrick McManus and David Keeler discovered 2 issues that could result
in certificate pinning being bypassed in some circumstances. An attacker
with a fraudulent certificate could potentially exploit this conduct a
machine-in-the-middle attack. (CVE-2014-1582, CVE-2014-1584)

Eric Shepherd and Jan-Ivar Bruaroey discovered issues with video sharing
via WebRTC in iframes, where video continues to be shared after being
stopped and navigating to a new site doesn't turn off the camera. An
attacker could potentially exploit this to access the camera without the
user being aware. (CVE-2014-1585, CVE-2014-1586)

Boris Zbarsky discovered that webapps could use the Alarm API to read the
values of cross-origin references. If a user were tricked in to installing
a specially crafter webapp, an attacker could potentially exploit this to
bypass same-origin restrictions. (CVE-2014-1583)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS firefox 33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Vulnerabilities 12

  • Unscored —

    Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2…

  • Unscored —

    Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0 allow remote attackers to cau…

  • Unscored —

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsTransformedTextRun function in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before…

  • Unscored —

    The mozilla::dom::OscillatorNodeEngine::ComputeCustom function in the Web Audio subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 33.…

  • Unscored —

    The get_tile function in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.2 al…

  • Unscored —

    Mozilla Firefox before 33.0 does not properly initialize memory for GIF images, which allows remote attackers to obtain…

  • Unscored —

    Use-after-free vulnerability in DirectionalityUtils.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2, a…

  • Unscored —

    The Public Key Pinning (PKP) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0 does not properly consider the connection-co…

  • Unscored —

    The Alarm API in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0 and Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2 does not properly restrict toJSON calls, …

  • Unscored —

    The Public Key Pinning (PKP) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0 skips pinning checks upon an unspecified iss…

  • Unscored —

    The WebRTC video-sharing feature in dom/media/MediaManager.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before …

  • Unscored —

    content/base/src/nsDocument.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2, and Thunderbird 31.x befo…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1574
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1575
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1576
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1577
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1578
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1580
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1581
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1582
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1583
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1584
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1585
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1586