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 ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-2706
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: 1213938
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-04-21 15:06 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-02-17 05:21 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-04-22 06:18:42 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2015-04-21 15:06:17 UTC
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.

External Reference:

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

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-04-22 06:18:27 UTC
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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