Bug 1107421 (CVE-2014-1538)

Summary: CVE-2014-1538 Mozilla: Use-after-free and out of bounds issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2014-49)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: erack, jhorak, jkurik, jrusnack, security-response-team, stransky, tpopela
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-06-10 02:36:54 UTC 
Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team discovered a number of use-after-free and out of bounds read issues using the Address Sanitizer tool. These issues are potentially exploitable, allowing for remote code execution.

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



External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-49.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Abhishek Arya  as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-06-10 20:45:28 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0742 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0742.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2014-06-10 21:36:03 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:0741 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0741.html