Bug 863625 (CVE-2012-3995, CVE-2012-4179, CVE-2012-4180, CVE-2012-4181, CVE-2012-4182, CVE-2012-4183) - CVE-2012-3995 CVE-2012-4179 CVE-2012-4180 CVE-2012-4181 CVE-2012-4182 CVE-2012-4183 Mozilla: Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and out of bounds read issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2012-85)
Summary: CVE-2012-3995 CVE-2012-4179 CVE-2012-4180 CVE-2012-4181 CVE-2012-4182 CVE-201...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2012-3995, CVE-2012-4179, CVE-2012-4180, CVE-2012-4181, CVE-2012-4182, CVE-2012-4183
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: 852611
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-10-06 05:27 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 19:49 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-10-10 09:07:43 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1350 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security and bug fix update 2012-10-10 02:51:39 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2012:1351 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: thunderbird security update 2012-10-10 02:31:05 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2012-10-06 05:27:14 UTC 
Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team discovered a series of use-after-free, buffer overflow, and out of bounds read issues using the Address Sanitizer tool in shipped software. These issues are potentially exploitable, allowing for remote code execution. We would also like to thank Abhishek for reporting two additional use-after-free flaws introduced during Firefox 16 development and fixed before general release.

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/2012/mfsa2012-85.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Abhishek Arya as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2012-10-09 22:33:32 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1351 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2012-10-09 22:54:08 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2012:1350 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1350.html
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