Mozilla Firefox ESR CVE-2014-1509 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Security researcher John Thomson discovered a memory corruption in the Cairo graphics library during font rendering of a PDF file for display. This memory corruption leads to a potentially exploitable crash and to a denial of service (DOS). This issues is not able to be triggered in a default configuration and would require a malicious extension to be installed.

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Firefox ESR

CVE References

CVE-2014-1509