Bug 851923 (CVE-2012-3971) - CVE-2012-3971 Mozilla: Graphite 2 memory corruption (MFSA 2012-64)
Summary: CVE-2012-3971 Mozilla: Graphite 2 memory corruption (MFSA 2012-64)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2012-3971
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 847589
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Reported: 2012-08-27 04:02 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 20:16 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-27 04:03:20 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-08-27 04:02:35 UTC 
Using the Address Sanitizer tool, Mozilla security researcher Christoph Diehl discovered two memory corruption issues involving the Graphite 2 library used in Mozilla products. Both of these issues can cause a potentially exploitable crash. These problems were fixed in the Graphite 2 library, which has been updated for Mozilla products.

Reference:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-64.html

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges security researcher Christoph Diehl as the original reporter of this flaw.

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of Firefox and Thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
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