Bug 877624 (CVE-2012-4204)

Summary: CVE-2012-4204 Mozilla: Memory corruption in str_unescape (MFSA 2012-96)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-11-17 11:30:15 UTC 
Security researcher Scott Bell of Security-Assessment.com used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a memory corruption in str_unescape in the Javascript engine. This could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution.

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.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-96.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Scott Bell as the original reporter.

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6