Bug 1195629 (CVE-2015-0826) - CVE-2015-0826 Mozilla: Buffer overflow during CSS restyling (MFSA 2015-20)
Summary: CVE-2015-0826 Mozilla: Buffer overflow during CSS restyling (MFSA 2015-20)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-0826
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1193790
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-02-24 08:30 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 07:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-02-24 19:43:50 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-02-24 08:30:09 UTC 
Security researcher Atte Kettunen used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover an out-of-bounds read during the application of restyling and reflowing changes of web content using CSS. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-20


Acknowledgements:

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

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.
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