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Bug 1107432 - (CVE-2014-1545) CVE-2014-1545 Mozilla: Out of bounds write in NSPR (MFSA 2014-55)
CVE-2014-1545 Mozilla: Out of bounds write in NSPR (MFSA 2014-55)
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20140610,repor...
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Depends On: 1113857 1113858 1113859 1115783
Blocks: 1248058
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Reported: 2014-06-09 22:49 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2016-01-22 11:37 EST (History)
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An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in NSPR. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash an application using NSPR or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running that application. This NSPR flaw was not exposed to web content in any shipped version of Firefox.
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Last Closed: 2015-07-30 05:56:53 EDT
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Tracker ID Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0917 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: nss and nspr security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2014-07-22 17:59:48 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1246 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: nss and nspr security, bug fix, and enhancement update 2014-09-16 05:39:01 EDT

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-06-09 22:49:41 EDT 
Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team reported an out of bounds write in the Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) leading to a potentially exploitable crash or code execution. This issue is fixed in NSPR version 4.10.6.

This NSPR flaw was not exposed to web content in any shipped version of Firefox.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-55.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Abhishek Arya as the original reporter.
Comment 2 Murray McAllister 2014-07-03 02:33:41 EDT 
Created nspr tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1115783]
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2014-07-22 14:00:34 EDT 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:0917 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0917.html
Comment 4 Martin Prpič 2014-07-28 07:37:17 EDT 
IssueDescription:

An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in NSPR. A remote attacker could potentially use this flaw to crash an application using NSPR or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running that application. This NSPR flaw was not exposed to web content in any shipped version of Firefox.
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2014-09-16 01:39:40 EDT 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1246 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1246.html
Comment 7 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-07-30 05:55:16 EDT 
This issue was addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 via the following update:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-0364.html
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