Bug 1009216 (CVE-2013-1724) - CVE-2013-1724 Mozilla: Use-after-free with select element (MFSA 2013-81)
Summary: CVE-2013-1724 Mozilla: Use-after-free with select element (MFSA 2013-81)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-1724
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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Blocks: 1004291
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-09-18 02:03 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 00:05 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-09-18 02:15:50 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-09-18 02:03:54 UTC
Security researcher Scott Bell used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a use-after-free when using a <select> element in a form after it has been destroyed. This could lead to a potentially exploitable crash.

In general this flaw cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled, but is potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts.


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-81.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6


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