Bug 977610 (CVE-2013-1694) - CVE-2013-1694 Mozilla: PreserveWrapper has inconsistent behavior (MFSA 2013-56)
Summary: CVE-2013-1694 Mozilla: PreserveWrapper has inconsistent behavior (MFSA 2013-56)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-1694
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 972560
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-06-25 02:06 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 23:18 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-06-10 21:21:25 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0981 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2013-06-26 00:11:27 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0982 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2013-06-26 00:01:13 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-06-25 02:06:46 UTC
Mozilla developer Boris Zbarsky found that when PreserveWrapper was used in cases where a wrapper is not set, the preserved-wrapper flag on the wrapper cache is cleared. This could potentially lead to an exploitable crash.

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/2013/mfsa2013-56.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-06-25 20:02:57 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2013:0982 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0982.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-06-25 20:13:16 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0981 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0981.html


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