Bug 1416273 (CVE-2017-5378)

Summary:	CVE-2017-5378 Mozilla: Pointer and frame data leakage of Javascript objects (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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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cschalle, gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, stransky
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-01-25 06:17:38 UTC

Hashed codes of JavaScript objects are shared between pages. This allows for pointer leaks because an object’s address can be discovered through hash codes, and also allows for data leakage of an object’s content using these hash codes.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-02/#CVE-2017-5378

Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Jann Horn

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-01-25 09:33:04 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 04:39:34 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