Bug 851918 (CVE-2012-3966) - CVE-2012-3966 Mozilla: Memory corruption with bitmap format images with negative height (MFSA 2012-61)
Summary: CVE-2012-3966 Mozilla: Memory corruption with bitmap format images with negat...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-3966
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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urgent
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2012-08-27 03:44 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 20:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-29 05:27:45 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 03:44:16 UTC 
Security researcher Frédéric Hoguin reported two related issues with the decoding of bitmap (.BMP) format images embedded in icon (.ICO) format files. When processing a negative "height" header value for the bitmap image, a memory corruption can be induced, allowing an attacker to write random memory and cause a crash. This crash may be potentially exploitable. 

Reference:
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-61.html

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Frédéric Hoguin as the original reporter of this flaw.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2012-08-29 04:24:05 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 04:44:35 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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