Bug 1479223 (CVE-2017-7801) - CVE-2017-7801 Mozilla: Use-after-free with marquee during window resizing
Summary: CVE-2017-7801 Mozilla: Use-after-free with marquee during window resizing
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-7801
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1477026
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-08 06:52 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-26 00:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-08-24 07:28:31 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2456 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2017-08-11 03:20:02 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2534 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2017-08-24 10:45:27 UTC

Description Doran Moppert 2017-08-08 06:52:34 UTC 
A use-after-free vulnerability while re-computing layout for a marquee element during window resizing where the updated style object is freed while still in use. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-19/#CVE-2017-7801


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Nils
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-10 23:21:33 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2017:2456 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2456
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-24 06:46:47 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2534 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2534
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