Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox's Off Main Thread Compositing (OMTC) Implementation

CVE-2015-0806 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The Off Main Thread Compositing (OMTC) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 attempts to use memset for a memory region of negative length during interaction with the mozilla::layers::BufferTextureClient::AllocateForSurface function, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via vectors that trigger rendering of 2D graphics content.

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