Bug 1642182 – CVE-2018-12392 Mozilla: Crash with nested event loops

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Bug 1642182 - (CVE-2018-12392) CVE-2018-12392 Mozilla: Crash with nested event loops

Summary:	CVE-2018-12392 Mozilla: Crash with nested event loops

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-12392

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

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Depends On:	1640852 1640854
Blocks:	1640850
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Reported:	2018-10-23 18:07 EDT by Doran Moppert
Modified:	2018-10-24 18:10 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:3005	None	None	None	2018-10-24 18:09 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:3006	None	None	None	2018-10-24 18:10 EDT

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Description Doran Moppert 2018-10-23 18:07:12 EDT

When manipulating user events in nested loops while opening a document through script, it is possible to trigger a potentially exploitable crash due to poor event handling. 



External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-27/#CVE-2018-12392

Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-10-23 18:07:22 EDT

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Nils

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-24 18:09:33 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:3005 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3005

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-24 18:09:55 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:3006 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3006

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