Bug 1023841 (CVE-2013-5597) - CVE-2013-5597 Mozilla: Use-after-free when updating offline cache (MFSA 2013-98)
Summary: CVE-2013-5597 Mozilla: Use-after-free when updating offline cache (MFSA 2013-98)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-5597
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1015366
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-10-28 04:37 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 00:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-08-22 16:22:30 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1476 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2013-10-30 01:14:21 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1480 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2013-11-27 23:39:56 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-10-28 04:37:17 UTC 
Security researcher Byoungyoung Lee of Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a use-after-free during state change events while updating the offline cache. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash.

In general this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and Seamonkey products because scripting is disabled, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-98.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Byoungyoung Lee as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-10-29 21:16:39 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1476 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1476.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-10-30 16:32:20 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1480 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1480.html
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