Bug 1107432 (CVE-2014-1545)

Summary:	CVE-2014-1545 Mozilla: Out of bounds write in NSPR (MFSA 2014-55)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	emaldona, jkurik, jrusnack, security-response-team
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in NSPR. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash an application using NSPR or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running that application. This NSPR flaw was not exposed to web content in any shipped version of Firefox.	Story Points:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1113857, 1113858, 1113859, 1115783
Bug Blocks:	1248058

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-06-10 02:49:41 UTC

Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team reported an out of bounds write in the Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) leading to a potentially exploitable crash or code execution. This issue is fixed in NSPR version 4.10.6.

This NSPR flaw was not exposed to web content in any shipped version of Firefox.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-55.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2014-07-03 06:33:41 UTC

Created nspr tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1115783]

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2014-07-22 18:00:34 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0917 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0917.html

Comment 4 Martin Prpič 2014-07-28 11:37:17 UTC

IssueDescription:

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in NSPR. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash an application using NSPR or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running that application. This NSPR flaw was not exposed to web content in any shipped version of Firefox.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2014-09-16 05:39:40 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1246 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1246.html

Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-07-30 09:55:16 UTC

This issue was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 via the following update:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0364.html