CVE-2014-1577

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-10-15 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The mozilla::dom::OscillatorNodeEngine::ComputeCustom function in the Web Audio subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.2 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read, memory corruption, and application crash) via an invalid custom waveform that triggers a calculation of a negative frequency value.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 32.0; 31.0, 31.1.0, 30.0
Mozilla Thunderbird: 31.0, 31.1.0

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/141796.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141085.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/2014-11/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00001.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00003.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1635.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1647.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/61387
http://secunia.com/advisories/61854

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