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CVE-2014-1522

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-04-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The mozilla::dom::OscillatorNodeEngine::ComputeCustom function in the Web Audio subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read, memory corruption, and application crash) via crafted content.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 12.10, 13.10, 14.04
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 19
• Mozilla Firefox: before 29.0 — fixed in 29.0
• Mozilla Seamonkey: before 2.26 — fixed in 2.26
• Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 29.0; Mozilla Seamonkey 2.26. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00010.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00033.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/59866
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-36.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030164
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2185-1
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=995289
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html

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