Bug 827832 (CVE-2012-1946) - CVE-2012-1946 Mozilla: Use-after-free while replacing/inserting a node in a document (MFSA 2012-38)
Summary: CVE-2012-1946 Mozilla: Use-after-free while replacing/inserting a node in a d...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-1946
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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Blocks: 816119
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-06-03 08:42 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 12:18 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-06-07 00:30:26 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0710 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2012-06-06 00:55:44 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:0715 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: thunderbird security update 2012-06-07 03:46:35 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-06-03 08:42:54 UTC 
Security researcher Arthur Gerkis used the Address Sanitizer tool to find a use-after-free while replacing/inserting a node in a document. This use-after-free could possibly allow for remote code execution. 

Reference:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-38.html
Comment 1 Murray McAllister 2012-06-05 03:25:06 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue.
Upstream acknowledges security researcher Arthur Gerkis as the original
reporter.
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-05 20:59:35 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:0710 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0710.html
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-06 23:51:32 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:0715 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0715.html
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