Bug 1416271 (CVE-2017-5375)

Summary:	CVE-2017-5375 Mozilla: Excessive JIT code allocation allows bypass of ASLR and DEP (MFSA 2017-02)
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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Version:	unspecified	CC:	cschalle, jhorak, security-response-team, stransky
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-01-25 06:12:17 UTC

JIT code allocation can allow for a bypass of ASLR and DEP protections leading to potential memory corruption attacks.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-02/#CVE-2017-5375

Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Rh0

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-01-25 09:32:52 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2017:0190 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0190.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-02 04:39:21 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-2017:0238 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0238.html