Bug 863626 (CVE-2012-4185, CVE-2012-4186, CVE-2012-4187, CVE-2012-4188) - CVE-2012-4185 CVE-2012-4186 CVE-2012-4187 CVE-2012-4188 Mozilla: Heap memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2012-86)
Summary: CVE-2012-4185 CVE-2012-4186 CVE-2012-4187 CVE-2012-4188 Mozilla: Heap memory ...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-4185, CVE-2012-4186, CVE-2012-4187, CVE-2012-4188
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 852611
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-10-06 05:35 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 19:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-10-10 09:07:46 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1350 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security and bug fix update 2012-10-10 02:51:39 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1351 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: thunderbird security update 2012-10-10 02:31:05 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-10-06 05:35:58 UTC
Security researcher Atte Kettunen from OUSPG reported several heap memory corruption issues found using the Address Sanitizer tool. These issues are potentially exploitable, allowing for remote code execution.

In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird and SeaMonkey products because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts in those products.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-86.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Atte Kettunen as the original reporter.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2012-10-09 22:33:35 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1351 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-10-09 22:54:11 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1350 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1350.html


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