Bug 1443311 – CVE-2017-5449 Mozilla: Crash during bidirectional unicode manipulation with animation (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)

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Bug 1443311 - (CVE-2017-5449) CVE-2017-5449 Mozilla: Crash during bidirectional unicode manipulation with animation (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)

Summary:	CVE-2017-5449 Mozilla: Crash during bidirectional unicode manipulation with a...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2017-5449

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

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Reported:	2017-04-19 01:52 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2017-08-17 01:41 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2017:1104	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2017-04-20 08:21:32 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2017:1106	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2017-04-21 00:49:25 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2017:1201	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2017-05-08 06:45:45 EDT

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-04-19 01:52:36 EDT

A possibly exploitable crash triggered during layout and manipulation of bidirectional unicode text in concert with CSS animations.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-11/#CVE-2017-5449


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Nils

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-20 04:22:40 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2017:1104 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1104

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-20 20:50:59 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1106 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2017-05-08 02:47:40 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1201 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201

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