Bug 730521 – CVE-2011-2378 Mozilla: Dangling pointer vulnerability in appendChild

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Bug 730521 - (CVE-2011-2378) CVE-2011-2378 Mozilla: Dangling pointer vulnerability in appendChild

Summary:	CVE-2011-2378 Mozilla: Dangling pointer vulnerability in appendChild

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2011-2378

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

Priority	urgent Severity urgent
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Reported:	2011-08-14 00:23 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2013-04-12 12:24 EDT (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2013-04-12 12:24:45 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2011:1164	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2011-08-16 14:44:56 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2011:1166	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: thunderbird security update	2011-08-16 14:33:47 EDT

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2011-08-14 00:23:05 EDT

Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative that appendChild did not correctly account for DOM objects it operated upon and could be exploited to dereference an invalid pointer.

Comment 1 Vincent Danen 2011-08-16 13:36:48 EDT

This is now public:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-30.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2011-08-16 14:34:02 EDT

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2011:1166 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1166.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2011-08-16 14:45:14 EDT

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-2011:1164 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1164.html

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