Bug 877635 – CVE-2012-5830 CVE-2012-5833 CVE-2012-5835 Mozilla: Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2012-106)

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Bug 877635 - (CVE-2012-5830, CVE-2012-5833, CVE-2012-5835) CVE-2012-5830 CVE-2012-5833 CVE-2012-5835 Mozilla: Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2012-106)

Summary:	CVE-2012-5830 CVE-2012-5833 CVE-2012-5835 Mozilla: Use-after-free, buffer ove...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2012-5830, CVE-2012-5833, CVE-2012-5835

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2012-11-17 07:08 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-01-26 07:23 EST (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2013-01-16 11:49:25 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2012:1482	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2012-11-20 22:10:31 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2012:1483	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: thunderbird security update	2012-11-20 21:49:59 EST

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-11-17 07:08:38 EST

Security researcher miaubiz used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a series critically rated of use-after-free, buffer overflow, and memory corruption issues in shipped software. These issues are potentially exploitable, allowing for remote code execution. We would also like to thank miaubiz for reporting two additional use-after-free and memory corruption issues introduced during Firefox development that were fixed before general release.

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/mfsa2012-106.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2012-11-20 16:51:54 EST

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 17:12:34 EST

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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