Bug 1039424 (CVE-2013-5619) - CVE-2013-5619 Mozilla: Potential overflow in JavaScript binary search algorithms (MFSA 2013-110)
Summary: CVE-2013-5619 Mozilla: Potential overflow in JavaScript binary search algorit...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-5619
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1030244
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Reported: 2013-12-09 04:24 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 01:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-12-09 05:04:49 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-12-09 04:24:19 UTC
Compiler Engineer Dan Gohman of Google reported that binary search algorithms in the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine were prone to overflow in several places, leading to potential out-of-bounds array access. While none of these are known to be directly exploitable, they are unsafe in theory and have been changed as part of general security improvements.

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.



External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-110.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Dan Gohman 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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