Bug 1236951 (CVE-2015-2728)

Summary: CVE-2015-2728 Mozilla: Type confusion in Indexed Database Manager (MFSA 2015-61)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: jhorak, jrusnack, security-response-team, stransky
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-06-30 04:59:04 UTC 
Security researcher Paul Bandha reported a type confusion error where part of IDBDatabase is read by the Indexed Database Manager and incorrectly used as a pointer when it shouldn't be used as such. This leads to memory corruption and the possibility of an exploitable crash. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-61.html


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 2015-07-03 05:13:21 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2015:1207 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1207.html
Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-07-06 04:27:10 UTC 
Statement:

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