Bug 892144 (CVE-2013-0748) - CVE-2013-0748 Mozilla: Address space layout leaked in XBL objects (MFSA 2013-11)
Summary: CVE-2013-0748 Mozilla: Address space layout leaked in XBL objects (MFSA 2013-11)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-0748
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 890133
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-01-05 13:30 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 21:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-04-12 21:35:16 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0144 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2013-01-09 02:36:56 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2013:0145 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: thunderbird security update 2013-01-09 02:15:27 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-01-05 13:30:57 UTC
Mozilla security researcher Jesse Ruderman discovered that using the toString function of XBL objects can lead to inappropriate information leakage by revealing the address space layout instead of just the ID of the object. This layout information could potentially be used to bypass ASLR and other security protections.

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/2013/mfsa2013-11.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Jesse Ruderman as the original reporter.

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-08 21:17:17 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

   Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0145 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0145.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-08 21:39:07 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

   Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2013:0144 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0144.html


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