Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-1562)

Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities (CVE-2014-1562)

Released on: 2014-09-02
Updated on: 2014-09-04

Affected Systems:
Mozilla Firefox
Mozilla Thunderbird
Description:
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Bugtraq id: 69519
CVE (CAN) ID: CVE-2014-1562

Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey is the WEB browser and mail/newsgroup client released by Mozilla.

Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird have multiple memory security issues. If attackers trick users into opening constructed websites, these vulnerabilities can be exploited to cause application crash, this causes a denial of service or arbitrary code execution with the current user permission.

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Suggestion:
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Vendor patch:

Mozilla
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The vendor has released a patch to fix this security problem. Please download it from the vendor's homepage:

Http://www.mozilla.org/security/

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