Bug 840211 (CVE-2012-1958) - CVE-2012-1958 Mozilla: use-after-free in nsGlobalWindow::PageHidden (MFSA 2012-48)
Summary: CVE-2012-1958 Mozilla: use-after-free in nsGlobalWindow::PageHidden (MFSA 201...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-1958
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 835033
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-07-14 12:04 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 19:16 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2012-07-18 07:30:30 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1088 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2012-07-17 23:26:50 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1089 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: thunderbird security update 2012-07-17 22:56:27 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-07-14 12:04:45 UTC 
Security researcher Arthur Gerkis used the Address Sanitizer tool to find a use-after-free in nsGlobalWindow::PageHidden when mFocusedContent is released and oldFocusedContent is used afterwards. This use-after-free could possibly allow for remote code execution. 

Reference:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-48.html

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Security researcher Arthur Gerkis as the original reporter of this flaw.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2012-07-17 18:57:48 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1089 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1089.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-07-17 19:28:13 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1088 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1088.html
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