Buffer overflows on Libvpx when decoding WebM video — Mozilla

2015-08-1100:00:00

Mozilla Foundation

www.mozilla.org

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

0.018

Percentile

88.3%

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Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover two buffer overflow issues in the Libvpx library used for WebM video when decoding a malformed WebM video file. These buffer overflows result in potentially exploitable crashes.

Affected configurations

Vulners

Node

mozillafirefoxRange<40

mozillafirefox_esrRange<38.2

mozillafirefox_osRange<2.5

mozillaseamonkeyRange<2.35

VendorProductVersionCPE
mozillafirefox*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillafirefox_esr*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillafirefox_os*cpe:2.3:o:mozilla:firefox_os:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mozillaseamonkey*cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
mozilla	firefox	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox::::::::
mozilla	firefox_esr	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox_esr::::::::
mozilla	firefox_os	*	cpe:2.3:o:mozilla:firefox_os::::::::
mozilla	seamonkey	*	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey::::::::