Bug 785966 (CVE-2012-0449)

Summary:	CVE-2012-0449 Mozilla: Crash when rendering SVG+XSLT (MFSA 2012-08)
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:	gecko-bugs-nobody, mjc, security-response-team
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-01-31 03:06:00 UTC

It was found that mozilla would crash when rendering certain SVG files, containing XSLT. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2012-01-31 20:27:29 UTC

External References:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-08.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-01-31 23:44:59 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0080 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0080.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2012-02-01 00:07:22 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0079 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0079.html