Bug 892149 (CVE-2013-0753) - CVE-2013-0753 Mozilla: Use-after-free in serializeToStream (MFSA 2013-16)
Summary: CVE-2013-0753 Mozilla: Use-after-free in serializeToStream (MFSA 2013-16)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2013-0753
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: Embargoed890133
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Reported: 2013-01-05 13:41 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-11 21:27 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-04-12 17:13:17 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 13:41:15 UTC 
Security researcher regenrecht reported via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative a use-after-free in XMLSerializer by the exposing of serializeToStream to web content. This can lead to arbitrary code execution when exploited. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-16.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges regenrecht as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-08 21:17:25 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 21:39:15 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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