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)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-5616
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1030244
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-12-09 04:20 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 01:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-12-12 04:15:53 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1812 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2013-12-11 10:27:00 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:1823 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2013-12-11 22:26:18 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-12-09 04:20:09 UTC
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 05:28:11 UTC
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 17:27:44 UTC
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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