Bug 1031461 (CVE-2013-5607) - CVE-2013-5607 nspr: Avoid unsigned integer wrapping in PL_ArenaAllocate (MFSA 2013-103)
Summary: CVE-2013-5607 nspr: Avoid unsigned integer wrapping in PL_ArenaAllocate (MFSA...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-5607
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1031465 1031898 1032485 1032488 1033524 1033525
Blocks: 1030811
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-11-18 03:15 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 01:03 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: nspr-4.10.2-1.el6_5
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2021-10-20 10:42:16 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1791 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: nss and nspr security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2013-12-05 21:15:00 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1829 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: nss, nspr, and nss-util security update 2013-12-13 00:02:32 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-11-18 03:15:57 UTC
Pascal Cuoq, RedHat developer Kamil Dudka, and Google developer Wan-Teh Chang found a flaw similar to CVE-2013-1741 in  Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) library code suffered the same integer truncation.

Upstream patch:
https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/rev/4df6bc35be64

External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-103.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Pascal Cuoq, Kamil Dudka, and Wan-Teh Chang as the original reporters of this issue.

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-11-19 05:33:32 UTC
Created nspr tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1031898]

Comment 4 Tomas Hoger 2013-11-20 11:29:41 UTC
Fixed upstream in NSPR 4.10.2:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.tech.nspr/_8AcygMEjSA

Upstream bug (currently non-public):

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=927687

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2013-12-05 16:16:05 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1791 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1791.html

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2013-12-11 02:05:08 UTC
nspr-4.10.2-1.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2013-12-12 19:04:01 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:1829 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1829.html

Comment 12 Fedora Update System 2013-12-13 05:03:32 UTC
nspr-4.10.2-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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