Bug 911838 (CVE-2013-0765) - CVE-2013-0765 Mozilla: Wrapped WebIDL objects can be wrapped again (MFSA 2013-23)
Summary: CVE-2013-0765 Mozilla: Wrapped WebIDL objects can be wrapped again (MFSA 2013...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-0765
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 895009
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Reported: 2013-02-16 09:12 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 21:59 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-02-16 11:17:12 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-02-16 09:12:09 UTC 
Mozilla developer Boris Zbarsky reported that in some circumstances a wrapped WebIDL object can be wrapped multiple times, overwriting the existing wrapped state. This could lead to an exploitable condition in rare cases.



External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-23.html


Acknowledgements:

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

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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