Bug 1220605 (CVE-2015-2713)

Summary: CVE-2015-2713 Mozilla: Use-after-free during text processing with vertical text enabled (MFSA 2015-51)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: chazlett, jhorak, jrusnack, security-response-team, stransky
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-05-12 01:16:40 UTC 
Security researcher Scott Bell used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a use-after-free error during the processing of text when vertical text is enabled. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-51.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Scott Bell as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2015-05-12 18:50:41 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2015:0988 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0988.html
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2015-05-18 09:04:51 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2015:1012 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1012.html