840201 – (CVE-2012-1948) CVE-2012-1948 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:14.0/ rv:10.0.6) (MFSA 2012-42)

Bug 840201 (CVE-2012-1948) - CVE-2012-1948 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:14.0/ rv:10.0.6) (MFSA 2012-42)

Summary: CVE-2012-1948 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:14.0/ rv:10.0....

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	CVE-2012-1948
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	urgent
Severity:	urgent
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks:	835033 CVE-2012-1949
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2012-07-14 10:19 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2021-11-12 19:20 UTC (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)
Fixed In Version:
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Clone Of:
Clones:	CVE-2012-1949 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed:	2012-07-18 07:31:48 UTC
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System	ID	Private	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2012:1088	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2012-07-17 23:26:50 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2012:1089	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: thunderbird security update	2012-07-17 22:56:27 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-07-14 10:19:09 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.

Reference:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-42.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-07-17 18:57:37 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1089 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1089.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2012-07-17 19:27:59 UTC

This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1088 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1088.html

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