Bug 188835

Summary:	CVE-2006-1724 Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (1.5.0.2)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Josh Bressers <bressers>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Christopher Aillon <caillon>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5	CC:	djuran, security-response-team, wtogami
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	reported=20060412,source=mozilla,embargo=20060414,impact=critical
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Description Josh Bressers 2006-04-13 03:30:59 UTC

Crashes with evidence of memory corruption (1.5.0.2)


As  part of the Firefox 1.5.0.2 release we fixed several crash bugs to
improve the stability of the product, with a particular focus on finding
crashes caused by DHTML. Some of these crashes showed evidence of memory
corruption that we presume could be exploited to run arbitrary code with
enough effort.

Note:  Thunderbird shares the browser engine with Firefox and could be
vulnerable if JavaScript were to be enabled in mail. This is not the default
setting and we strongly discourage users from running JavaScript in mail.

Workaround

Upgrade to the fixed versions. Do not enable JavaScript in Thunderbird or
the mail portion of SeaMonkey.

References

Also fixed in Firefox/Thunderbird 1.0.8, Mozilla Suite 1.7.13
[1]https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282105
Muck with the boxobject's internal frame pointer.
CVE-2006-1724


This issue also affects FC4

Comment 1 Josh Bressers 2006-04-27 12:52:27 UTC

These issues have been resolved in FEDORA-2006-411 for FC5 and FEDORA-2006-410
for FC4