Bug 1213935 – CVE-2015-2706 Mozilla: Memory corruption during failed plugin initialization (MFSA 2015-45)

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Bug 1213935 - (CVE-2015-2706) CVE-2015-2706 Mozilla: Memory corruption during failed plugin initialization (MFSA 2015-45)

Summary:	CVE-2015-2706 Mozilla: Memory corruption during failed plugin initialization ...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2015-2706

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

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Blocks:	1213938
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Reported:	2015-04-21 11:06 EDT by Martin Prpič
Modified:	2015-04-22 02:18 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2015-04-22 02:18:42 EDT
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-04-21 11:06:17 EDT

Mozilla developer Robert Kaiser (Kairo) reported that a race condition when initialization of a plugin fails led to a potentially exploitable use-after-free vulnerability.

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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-45/

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-04-22 02:18:27 EDT

Statement:

Not vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of Firefox and Thunderbird package, as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

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