Bug 1496656 (CVE-2017-7824) - CVE-2017-7824 Mozilla: Buffer overflow when drawing and validating elements with ANGLE (MFSA 2017-22)
Summary: CVE-2017-7824 Mozilla: Buffer overflow when drawing and validating elements w...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-7824
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1494903
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Reported: 2017-09-28 04:28 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-26 01:04 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-10-11 23:52:33 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2831 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2017-09-29 03:47:43 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:2885 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2017-10-12 03:40:10 UTC

Description Doran Moppert 2017-09-28 04:28:26 UTC 
A buffer overflow occurs when drawing and validating elements with the ANGLE graphics library, used for WebGL content. This is due to an incorrect value being passed within the library during checks and results in a potentially exploitable crash. 


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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-22/#CVE-2017-7824
Comment 2 Doran Moppert 2017-09-28 05:04:57 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Omair, Andre Weissflog
Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2017-09-28 18:48:07 UTC 
Public now via upstream advisories:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-22/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-21/
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2017-09-28 23:48:46 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2831 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2831
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2017-10-11 23:41:13 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:2885 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2885
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