Bug 1496656 – CVE-2017-7824 Mozilla: Buffer overflow when drawing and validating elements with ANGLE (MFSA 2017-22)

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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...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2017-7824

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

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Blocks:	1494903
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Reported:	2017-09-28 00:28 EDT by Doran Moppert
Modified:	2017-10-11 19:52 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2017:2831	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2017-09-28 23:47:43 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2017:2885	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2017-10-11 23:40:10 EDT

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Description Doran Moppert 2017-09-28 00:28:26 EDT

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. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-22/#CVE-2017-7824

Comment 2 Doran Moppert 2017-09-28 01:04:57 EDT

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Omair, Andre Weissflog

Comment 3 Tomas Hoger 2017-09-28 14:48:07 EDT

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 19:48:46 EDT

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 19:41:13 EDT

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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