Bug 1479650 (CVE-2017-7809) - CVE-2017-7809 Mozilla: Use-after-free while deleting attached editor DOM node (MFSA 2017-19)
Summary: CVE-2017-7809 Mozilla: Use-after-free while deleting attached editor DOM node...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-7809
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1477026
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-08-09 04:01 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-26 00:19 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2017-08-24 07:36:49 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 2017-08-09 04:01:34 UTC 
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when an editor DOM node is deleted prematurely during tree traversal while still bound to the document. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-19/#CVE-2017-7809
Comment 2 Doran Moppert 2017-08-09 04:18:27 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: The Mozilla Project
Upstream: Nils
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-10 23:21:54 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 4 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-24 06:47:07 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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