Bug 675143 (CVE-2011-0058) - CVE-2011-0058 Mozilla memory corruption during text run construction (MFSA 2011-07)
Summary: CVE-2011-0058 Mozilla memory corruption during text run construction (MFSA 20...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2011-0058
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-04 13:02 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:42 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-04-12 22:00:51 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
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 13:02:13 UTC
Alex Miller reported that when very long strings were constructed
and inserted into an HTML document, the browser would incorrectly 
construct the layout objects used to display the text. 
Under such conditions an incorrect length would be calculated for 
a text run resulting in too small of a memory buffer being allocated 
to store the text. 
This issue could be used by an attacker to write data past the end 
of the buffer and execute malicious code on a victim's computer.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-03-01 23:27:01 UTC
This is now public:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-07.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2011-03-02 01:10:22 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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