Bug 1220605 – CVE-2015-2713 Mozilla: Use-after-free during text processing with vertical text enabled (MFSA 2015-51)

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Bug 1220605 - (CVE-2015-2713) CVE-2015-2713 Mozilla: Use-after-free during text processing with vertical text enabled (MFSA 2015-51)

Summary:	CVE-2015-2713 Mozilla: Use-after-free during text processing with vertical te...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2015-2713

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

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Blocks:	1209788
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Reported:	2015-05-11 21:16 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-01-21 07:20 EST (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2015-05-18 05:36:15 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:0988	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2015-05-12 18:49:54 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:1012	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2015-05-18 09:03:41 EDT

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-05-11 21:16:40 EDT

Security researcher Scott Bell used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a use-after-free error during the processing of text when vertical text is enabled. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-51.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2015-05-12 14:50:41 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2015:0988 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0988.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2015-05-18 05:04:51 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2015:1012 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1012.html

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