Bug 1023841 (CVE-2013-5597)

Summary: CVE-2013-5597 Mozilla: Use-after-free when updating offline cache (MFSA 2013-98)
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 2013-10-28 04:37:17 UTC 
Security researcher Byoungyoung Lee of Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a use-after-free during state change events while updating the offline cache. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash.

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


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-98.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Byoungyoung Lee as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-10-29 21:16:39 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1476 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1476.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-10-30 16:32:20 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1480 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1480.html