Bug 1009219 (CVE-2013-1738)

Summary: CVE-2013-1738 Mozilla: GC hazard with default compartments and frame chain restoration (MFSA 2013-92)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, jkurik, stransky
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-09-18 02:12:49 UTC 
Security researcher Nils reported a potentially exploitable use-after-free in an early test version of Firefox 25. Mozilla developer Bobby Holley found that the cause was an older garbage collection bug that a more recent change made easier to trigger. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-92.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Nils as the original reporter.

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6