Bug 1039417 (CVE-2013-5609)

Summary: CVE-2013-5609 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:24.2) (MFSA 2013-104)
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 2013-12-09 04:08:33 UTC 
Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

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

Ben Turner, Bobby Holley, Jesse Ruderman, and Christian Holler reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR 24.1 and Firefox 25.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-104.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Ben Turner, Bobby Holley, Jesse Ruderman, and Christian Holler as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-12-11 05:27:58 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1812 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1812.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-12-11 17:27:29 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1823 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1823.html