Bug 1039423 (CVE-2013-5618)

Summary: CVE-2013-5618 Mozilla: Use-after-free during Table Editing (MFSA 2013-109)
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 04:21:56 UTC
Security researcher Nils used the Address Sanitizer tool while fuzzing to discover a use-after-free problem in the table editing user interface of the editor during garbage collection. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-109.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-12-11 05:28:17 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 17:27:48 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