Integer overflow, crash in libtheora video library — Mozilla

Security researcher Dan Kaminsky reported an integer overflow in the Theora video library. A video’s dimensions were being multiplied together and used in particular memory allocations. When the video dimensions were sufficiently large, the multiplication could overflow a 32-bit integer resulting in too small a memory buffer being allocated for the video. An attacker could use a specially crafted video to write data past the bounds of this buffer, causing a crash and potentially running arbitrary code on a victim’s computer.