Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox

CVE-2014-1564

Mozilla Firefox before 32.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.1, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.1 do not properly initialize memory for GIF rendering, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via crafted web script that interacts with a CANVAS element associated with a malformed GIF image.

EPSS: 0.055 (91.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-1564?
CVE-2014-1564 is a vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Access of Uninitialized Pointer. Published 2014-09-03.
Is CVE-2014-1564 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.