Bug 1107423 – CVE-2014-1540 Mozilla: Use-after-free in Event Listener Manager (MFSA 2014-51)

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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)

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2014-1540

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

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Blocks:	1095170
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Reported:	2014-06-09 22:40 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-03-04 07:55 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-06-09 22:40:48 EDT

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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