Bug 1039422 (CVE-2013-5616)

Summary: CVE-2013-5616 Mozilla: Use-after-free in event listeners (MFSA 2013-108)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: jhorak, jkurik, jrusnack, security-response-team, stransky
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-12-09 04:20:09 UTC 
Security researcher Jesse Schwartzentruber of the BlackBerry Security Automated Analysis Team used the Address Sanitizer tool while fuzzing to discover a user-after-free when interacting with event listeners from the mListeners array. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash.

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.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-108.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Jesse Schwartzentruber as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-12-11 05:28:11 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 17:27:44 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