Bug 1461258 (CVE-2017-7756)

Summary:	CVE-2017-7756 Mozilla: Use-after-free and use-after-scope logging XHR header errors (MFSA 2017-16)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	cschalle, jhorak, stransky
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-06-14 04:31:38 UTC

A use-after-free and use-after-scope vulnerability when logging errors from headers for XML HTTP Requests (XHR). This could result in a potentially exploitable crash.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-16/#CVE-2017-7756


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Abhishek Arya

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-06-14 07:53:22 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1440 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1440

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2017-06-21 04:37:29 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1561 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1561