Bug 918876 (CVE-2013-0787) - CVE-2013-0787 Mozilla: Use-after-free in HTML Editor (MFSA 2013-29)
Summary: CVE-2013-0787 Mozilla: Use-after-free in HTML Editor (MFSA 2013-29)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-0787
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: 918846
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-03-07 07:04 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 22:11 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2013-03-11 21:03:12 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0614 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: xulrunner security update 2013-03-08 17:23:00 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0627 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2013-03-11 23:18:03 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-03-07 07:04:40 UTC
VUPEN Security, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, reported a use-after-free within the HTML editor when content script is run by the document.execCommand() function while internal editor operations are occurring. This could allow for arbitrary code execution.

External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-29.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges VUPEN Security via the TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative project as the original reporter.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-03-08 12:24:31 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0614 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0614.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-03-11 19:18:33 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0627 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0627.html


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