Bug 1195619 (CVE-2015-0831)

Summary:	CVE-2015-0831 Mozilla: Use-after-free in IndexedDB (MFSA 2015-16)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	urgent
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cschalle, jhorak, jrusnack, security-response-team, stransky
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OS:	Linux
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-02-24 08:06:31 UTC

Security researcher Paul Bandha used the used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a use-after-free vulnerability when running specific web content with IndexedDB to create an index. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash.

In general this flaw 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:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-16


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2015-02-24 22:40:53 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2015:0265 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0265.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2015-02-25 12:39:12 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:0266 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0266.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 14:12:11 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for PPC64 LE

Via RHSA-2015:0629 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0629

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 19:31:12 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:0642 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0642.html