Bug 1023845 (CVE-2013-5603) - CVE-2013-5603 Mozilla: Use-after-free in HTML document templates (MFSA 2013-102)
Summary: CVE-2013-5603 Mozilla: Use-after-free in HTML document templates (MFSA 2013-102)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-5603
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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urgent
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1015366
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-10-28 04:47 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 00:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-10-28 05:21:14 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-10-28 04:47:02 UTC 
Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a user-after-free when interacting with HTML document templates. 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/mfsa2013-102.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Abhishek Arya 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
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