Bug 1496656 (CVE-2017-7824)

Summary:	CVE-2017-7824 Mozilla: Buffer overflow when drawing and validating elements with ANGLE (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 04:28:26 UTC

A buffer overflow occurs when drawing and validating elements with the ANGLE graphics library, used for WebGL content. This is due to an incorrect value being passed within the library during checks and results in a potentially exploitable crash. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-22/#CVE-2017-7824

Comment 2 Doran Moppert 2017-09-28 05:04:57 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Omair, Andre Weissflog

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2017-09-28 18:48:07 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 23:48:46 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 23:41:13 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