Bug 1039422 – CVE-2013-5616 Mozilla: Use-after-free in event listeners (MFSA 2013-108)

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Bug 1039422 - (CVE-2013-5616) CVE-2013-5616 Mozilla: Use-after-free in event listeners (MFSA 2013-108)

Summary:	CVE-2013-5616 Mozilla: Use-after-free in event listeners (MFSA 2013-108)

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2013-5616

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Blocks:	1030244
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Reported:	2013-12-08 23:20 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2015-08-19 04:32 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2013-12-11 23:15:53 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:1812	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2013-12-11 05:27:00 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2013:1823	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2013-12-11 17:26:18 EST

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-12-08 23:20:09 EST

Security researcher Jesse Schwartzentruber of the BlackBerry Security Automated Analysis Team used the Address Sanitizer tool while fuzzing to discover a user-after-free when interacting with event listeners from the mListeners array. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash.

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.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-108.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-12-11 00:28:11 EST

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1812 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1812.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-12-11 12:27:44 EST

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:1823 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1823.html

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