Bug 851910 (CVE-2012-1972, CVE-2012-1973, CVE-2012-1974, CVE-2012-1975, CVE-2012-1976, CVE-2012-3956, CVE-2012-3957, CVE-2012-3958, CVE-2012-3959, CVE-2012-3960, CVE-2012-3961, CVE-2012-3962, CVE-2012-3963, CVE-2012-3964) - Mozilla: Multiple Use-after-free issues (MFSA 2012-58)
Summary: Mozilla: Multiple Use-after-free issues (MFSA 2012-58)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-1972, CVE-2012-1973, CVE-2012-1974, CVE-2012-1975, CVE-2012-1976, CVE-2012-3956, CVE-2012-3957, CVE-2012-3958, CVE-2012-3959, CVE-2012-3960, CVE-2012-3961, CVE-2012-3962, CVE-2012-3963, CVE-2012-3964
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: Embargoed847589
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Reported: 2012-08-27 03:22 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 20:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-29 05:27:18 UTC

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1210 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2012-08-29 08:43:09 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1211 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: thunderbird security update 2012-08-29 08:22:47 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-08-27 03:22:41 UTC 
Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of Google Chrome Security Team discovered a series of use-after-free issues using the Address Sanitizer tool. Many of these issues are potentially exploitable, allowing for remote code execution.

Reference:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-58.html

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of Google Chrome Security Team as the original reporter of this flaw.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2012-08-29 04:24:02 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1211 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1211.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-08-29 04:44:32 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2012:1210 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1210.html
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