Bug 1195636 – CVE-2015-0823 Mozilla: Use-after-free in Developer Console date with OpenType Sanitiser (MFSA 2015-23)

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Bug 1195636 - (CVE-2015-0823) CVE-2015-0823 Mozilla: Use-after-free in Developer Console date with OpenType Sanitiser (MFSA 2015-23)

Summary:	CVE-2015-0823 Mozilla: Use-after-free in Developer Console date with OpenType...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2015-0823

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

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Blocks:	1193790
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Reported:	2015-02-24 03:35 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2015-02-26 03:59 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2015-02-24 14:45:45 EST
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-02-24 03:35:29 EST

Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Atte Kettunen found a problem with OpenType Sanitiser (OTS) that resulted in a use-after-free while expanding macros in some circumstances. This use-after-free was only used for information displayed in the developer console and was not exploitable. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-23


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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