Bug 1277349 – CVE-2015-7196 Mozilla: JavaScript garbage collection crash with Java applet (MFSA 2015-130)

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Bug 1277349 - (CVE-2015-7196) CVE-2015-7196 Mozilla: JavaScript garbage collection crash with Java applet (MFSA 2015-130)

Summary:	CVE-2015-7196 Mozilla: JavaScript garbage collection crash with Java applet (...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2015-7196

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

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Blocks:	1275590
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Reported:	2015-11-03 01:03 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2015-11-24 02:33 EST (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2015:1982	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2015-11-04 12:10:38 EST

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-11-03 01:03:06 EST

Mozilla community member Vytautas Staraitis reported an issue with the interaction of Java applets and JavaScript. The Java plugin can deallocate a JavaScript wrapper when it is still in use, which leads to a JavaScript garbage collection crash. This crash is potentially exploitable.

This issue only affects systems where Java is installed and enabled as a browser plugin. Other systems are unaffected.



External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-130.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2015-11-04 07:12:13 EST

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2015:1982 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1982.html

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