Bug 827832 (CVE-2012-1946)

Summary:	CVE-2012-1946 Mozilla: Use-after-free while replacing/inserting a node in a document (MFSA 2012-38)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	urgent
Version:	unspecified	CC:	gecko-bugs-nobody, jrusnack, security-response-team
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-06-03 08:42:54 UTC

Security researcher Arthur Gerkis used the Address Sanitizer tool to find a use-after-free while replacing/inserting a node in a document. This use-after-free could possibly allow for remote code execution. 

Reference:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-38.html

Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2012-06-05 03:25:06 UTC

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges security researcher Arthur Gerkis as the original
reporter.

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-05 20:59:35 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0710 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0710.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-06 23:51:32 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:0715 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0715.html