Bug 1195619 – CVE-2015-0831 Mozilla: Use-after-free in IndexedDB (MFSA 2015-16)

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Bug 1195619 - (CVE-2015-0831) CVE-2015-0831 Mozilla: Use-after-free in IndexedDB (MFSA 2015-16)

Summary:	CVE-2015-0831 Mozilla: Use-after-free in IndexedDB (MFSA 2015-16)

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2015-0831

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

Priority	urgent Severity urgent
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Keywords:	Security

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Blocks:	1193790
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Reported:	2015-02-24 03:06 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2015-03-20 00:15 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2015-03-06 04:53:55 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:0265	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2015-02-24 22:40:16 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:0266	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2015-02-25 12:38:44 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:0629	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2015-03-05 14:04:22 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:0642	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2015-03-05 19:29:49 EST

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-02-24 03:06:31 EST

Security researcher Paul Bandha used the used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a use-after-free vulnerability when running specific web content with IndexedDB to create an index. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash.

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:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-16


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2015-02-24 17:40:53 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2015:0265 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0265.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2015-02-25 07:39:12 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:0266 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0266.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 09:12:11 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for PPC64 LE

Via RHSA-2015:0629 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015:0629

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 14:31:12 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:0642 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0642.html

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