Bug 1443334 – CVE-2017-5455 Mozilla: Sandbox escape through internal feed reader APIs (MFSA 2017-12)

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Bug 1443334 - (CVE-2017-5455) CVE-2017-5455 Mozilla: Sandbox escape through internal feed reader APIs (MFSA 2017-12)

Summary:	CVE-2017-5455 Mozilla: Sandbox escape through internal feed reader APIs (MFSA...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2017-5455

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

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Blocks:	1437814
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Reported:	2017-04-19 02:24 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2017-08-17 01:41 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2017-05-12 01:49:50 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2017:1106	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2017-04-21 00:49:25 EDT

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-04-19 02:24:04 EDT

The Internal feed reader APIs that crossed the sandbox barrier allowed for a sandbox escape and escalation of privilege if combined with another vulnerability that resulted in remote code execution inside the sandboxed process. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-11/#CVE-2017-5455


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Paul Theriault

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-20 20:53:00 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

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