Bug 1195636 (CVE-2015-0823)

Summary: CVE-2015-0823 Mozilla: Use-after-free in Developer Console date with OpenType Sanitiser (MFSA 2015-23)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-02-24 08:35:29 UTC 
Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Atte Kettunen found a problem with OpenType Sanitiser (OTS) that resulted in a use-after-free while expanding macros in some circumstances. This use-after-free was only used for information displayed in the developer console and was not exploitable. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-23


Acknowledgements:

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

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.