Bug 1429778 (CVE-2017-5400) - CVE-2017-5400 Mozilla: asm.js JIT-spray bypass of ASLR and DEP (MFSA 2017-06)
Summary: CVE-2017-5400 Mozilla: asm.js JIT-spray bypass of ASLR and DEP (MFSA 2017-06)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-5400
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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urgent
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1419403
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Reported: 2017-03-07 04:41 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-25 22:51 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-03-14 06:38:09 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0459 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2017-03-08 21:04:04 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0461 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2017-03-08 20:53:58 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0498 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2017-03-14 10:03:30 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-03-07 04:41:59 UTC 
JIT-spray targeting asm.js combined with a heap spray allows for a bypass of ASLR and DEP protections leading to potential memory corruption attacks.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-06/#CVE-2017-5400


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Rh0
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-08 15:54:30 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:0461 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0461.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-08 16:04:31 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2017:0459 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0459.html
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-14 06:04:05 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2017:0498 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0498.html
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