CVE-2014-1580

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2014-1580 · Published 15/10/2014 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-1580 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.3%, higher than 83.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`= 30.0= 31.0= 31.1.0≤ 32.0`	No fix yet

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 33.0 does not properly initialize memory for GIF images, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted web page that triggers a sequence of rendering operations for truncated GIF data within a CANVAS element.

References

lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-November/141796.html
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-October/141085.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00002.html
secunia.com/advisories/62022
secunia.com/advisories/62023
mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-78.html · Vendor Advisory
oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
securityfocus.com/bid/70431
securitytracker.com/id/1031028
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2372-1
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01

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