Bug 1213935 (CVE-2015-2706)

Summary:	CVE-2015-2706 Mozilla: Memory corruption during failed plugin initialization (MFSA 2015-45)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Martin Prpič <mprpic>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	cschalle, gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, stransky
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-04-21 15:06:17 UTC

Mozilla developer Robert Kaiser (Kairo) reported that a race condition when initialization of a plugin fails led to a potentially exploitable use-after-free vulnerability.

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-45/

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-04-22 06:18:27 UTC

Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of Firefox and Thunderbird package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.