CVE-2014-1564

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-824

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 32.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.1, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.1 do not properly initialize memory for GIF rendering, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via crafted web script that interacts with a CANVAS element associated with a malformed GIF image.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 31.1.0; 30.0, 31.0
Mozilla Thunderbird: 31.0
openSUSE Evergreen: 11.4
Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00024.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00011.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128132/Mozilla-Firefox-Secret-Leak.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Sep/18
http://secunia.com/advisories/60148
http://secunia.com/advisories/61114
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-69.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533357/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69525

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