Bug 1009033 (CVE-2013-1725)

Summary: CVE-2013-1725 Mozilla: Calling scope for new Javascript objects can lead to memory corruption (MFSA 2013-82)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-09-17 14:21:51 UTC 
Mozilla community member Ms2ger found a mechanism where a new Javascript object with a compartment is uninitialized could be entered through web content. When the scope for this object is called, it leads to a potentially exploitable crash.

In general this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.



External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-82.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Ms2ger as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-09-17 19:16:47 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1269 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1269.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-09-17 19:37:27 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1268 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1268.html