Bug 877614 (CVE-2012-5842) - CVE-2012-5842 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:10.0.11) (MFSA 2012-91)
Summary: CVE-2012-5842 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:10.0.11) (MFSA...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-5842
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: 873088
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Reported: 2012-11-17 11:10 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 21:12 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2013-01-16 17:55:55 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1482 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2012-11-21 03:10:31 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1483 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: thunderbird security update 2012-11-21 02:49:59 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-11-17 11:10:38 UTC
Mozilla developers identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

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.

Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Bob Clary, and Kyle Huey reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR 10 and Firefox 16.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-91.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Bob Clary, and Kyle Huey as the original reporter.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2012-11-20 21:51:33 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:1483 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1483.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-11-20 22:12:11 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1482 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1482.html


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