Bug 977602 (CVE-2013-1690)

Summary: CVE-2013-1690 Mozilla: Execution of unmapped memory through onreadystatechange event (MFSA 2013-53)
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 2013-06-25 01:58:15 UTC 
Security researcher Nils reported that specially crafted web content using the onreadystatechange event and reloading of pages could sometimes cause a crash when unmapped memory is executed. This crash is potentially exploitable.

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/2013/mfsa2013-53.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Nils as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-06-25 20:02:38 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:0982 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0982.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-06-25 20:12:53 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0981 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0981.html