Bug 840201 (CVE-2012-1948)

Summary: CVE-2012-1948 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:14.0/ rv:10.0.6) (MFSA 2012-42)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, osoukup, security-response-team, stransky
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: CVE-2012-1949 (view as bug list) Environment:
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-07-14 10:19:09 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/mfsa2012-42.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-07-17 18:57:37 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1089 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1089.html
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2012-07-17 19:27:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1088 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1088.html