Bug 1269353 (CVE-2015-7183) - CVE-2015-7183 nspr: heap-buffer overflow in PL_ARENA_ALLOCATE (MFSA 2015-133)
Summary: CVE-2015-7183 nspr: heap-buffer overflow in PL_ARENA_ALLOCATE (MFSA 2015-133)
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-7183
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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Depends On: 1269359 1269360 1269361 1269362 1269363 1269386 1269387 1269388 1269389 1273897 1273899 1273901 1273902 1273903 1273904 1273905 1273906
Blocks: 1269376
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-10-07 06:03 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 10:48 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version: nspr 4.10.10
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Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-11-18 06:56:14 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1980 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: nss and nspr security update 2015-11-04 12:11:55 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1981 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: nss, nss-util, and nspr security update 2015-11-04 17:48:55 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:2068 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: nss, nss-util, and nspr security update 2015-11-18 11:28:24 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-10-07 06:03:50 UTC
Google security engineer Ryan Sleevi reported an integer overflow in the Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) due to a lack of checks during memory allocation. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash. This issue is fixed in NSPR 4.10.10. The NSPR library is a required component of NSS. 

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1205157

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-133.html
https://access.redhat.com/articles/2043623

Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 8 Tomas Hoger 2015-11-03 21:31:48 UTC
Fixed upstream in NSPR 4.10.10:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.tech.nspr/zKZoFtsDjtk

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-04 07:12:23 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2015:1980 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1980.html

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-04 12:49:52 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1981 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1981.html

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-18 06:28:56 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 EUS - Server and Compute Node Only
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 EUS - Server and Compute Node Only
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 AUS
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 AUS - Server Only

Via RHSA-2015:2068 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2068.html


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