Bug 675090 (CVE-2011-0055) - CVE-2011-0055 Mozilla use-after-free error in JSON.stringify (MFSA2011-03)
Summary: CVE-2011-0055 Mozilla use-after-free error in JSON.stringify (MFSA2011-03)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-0055
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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urgent
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-04 09:18 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-04-12 21:36:01 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2011:0310 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security and bug fix update 2011-03-02 01:09:43 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-02-04 09:18:53 UTC 
Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day 
Initiative that a method used by JSON.stringify contained a 
use-after-free error in which a currently in-use pointer was freed 
and subsequently dereferenced. 
This could lead to arbitrary code execution if an attacker was able 
to store malicious code in the freed section of memory.

Mozilla developer Igor Bukanov also independently discovered and 
reported this issue two weeks after the initial report was received.
Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-03-01 23:19:21 UTC 
This is now public:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-03.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2011-03-02 01:10:04 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:0310 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0310.html
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