Bug 1107423 (CVE-2014-1540) - CVE-2014-1540 Mozilla: Use-after-free in Event Listener Manager (MFSA 2014-51)
Summary: CVE-2014-1540 Mozilla: Use-after-free in Event Listener Manager (MFSA 2014-51)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-1540
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: 1095170
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Reported: 2014-06-10 02:40 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 04:09 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-06-10 13:12:44 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-06-10 02:40:48 UTC 
Security researchers Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber of the BlackBerry Security Automated Analysis Team used the Address Sanitizer tool while fuzzing to discover a use-after-free in the event listener manager. This can be triggered by web content and leads to a potentially exploitable crash. This issue was introduced in Firefox 29 and does not affect earlier versions. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-51.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber 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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