Bug 851924 (CVE-2012-3972) - CVE-2012-3972 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read in format-number in XSLT (MFSA 2012-65)
Summary: CVE-2012-3972 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read in format-number in XSLT (MFSA 2012...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-3972
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: Embargoed847589
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Reported: 2012-08-27 04:07 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 20:32 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-08-29 05:29:08 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 04:07:28 UTC 
Security researcher Nicolas Grégoire used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover an out-of-bounds read in the format-number feature of XSLT, which can cause inaccurate formatting of numbers and information leakage. This is not directly exploitable. 

Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Security researcher Nicolas Grégoire as the original reporter of this flaw.

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2012-65/
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2012-08-29 04:24:19 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 04:44:44 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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