CVE-2014-1565

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The mozilla::dom::AudioEventTimeline function in the Web Audio API implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 32.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.1, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.1 does not properly create audio timelines, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via crafted API calls.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 31.1.0; 30.0, 31.0
Mozilla Thunderbird: 31.0

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://secunia.com/advisories/60148
http://secunia.com/advisories/61114
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-70.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69521
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030793
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030794
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1047831

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