Bug 815000 (CVE-2012-0467, CVE-2012-0468)

Summary: CVE-2012-0467 CVE-2012-0468 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:12.0/ rv:10.0.4) (MFSA 2012-20)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-04-22 02:37:31 UTC
Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey products because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts in those products.

Reference:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-20.html

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2012-04-24 19:46:20 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0516 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0516.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-04-24 19:58:36 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0515 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0515.html

Comment 3 Murray McAllister 2012-05-02 05:46:58 UTC
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues.