Bug 1135869 (CVE-2014-1567) - CVE-2014-1567 Mozilla: Use-after-free setting text directionality (MFSA 2014-72)
Summary: CVE-2014-1567 Mozilla: Use-after-free setting text directionality (MFSA 2014-72)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-1567
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1134262
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2014-09-01 05:03 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 04:55 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2014-09-03 23:20:43 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1144 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2014-09-04 02:08:51 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:1145 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2014-09-03 22:04:44 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2014-09-01 05:03:58 UTC
Security researcher regenrecht reported, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, a use-after-free during text layout when interacting with the setting of text direction. This results in a use-after-free which can lead to arbitrary code execution.

In general this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-72.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2014-09-03 18:05:39 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2014:1145 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1145.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2014-09-03 22:09:23 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2014:1144 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1144.html


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