Bug 1496654 (CVE-2017-7819)

Summary:	CVE-2017-7819 Mozilla: Use-after-free while resizing images in design mode (MFSA 2017-22)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Doran Moppert <dmoppert>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	cschalle, gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, security-response-team, stransky
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Description Doran Moppert 2017-09-28 04:27:45 UTC

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in design mode when image objects are resized if objects referenced during the resizing have been freed from memory. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.  


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-22/#CVE-2017-7819

Comment 2 Doran Moppert 2017-09-28 05:04:28 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Nils

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2017-09-28 18:47:15 UTC

Public now via upstream advisories:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-22/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-21/

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2017-09-28 23:48:36 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2831 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2831

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2017-10-11 23:41:03 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2885 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2885