Bug 1195636 (CVE-2015-0823) - CVE-2015-0823 Mozilla: Use-after-free in Developer Console date with OpenType Sanitiser (MFSA 2015-23)
Summary: CVE-2015-0823 Mozilla: Use-after-free in Developer Console date with OpenType...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-0823
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: 1193790
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-02-24 08:35 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 07:18 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-02-24 19:45:45 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-02-24 08:35:29 UTC 
Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Atte Kettunen found a problem with OpenType Sanitiser (OTS) that resulted in a use-after-free while expanding macros in some circumstances. This use-after-free was only used for information displayed in the developer console and was not exploitable. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-23


Acknowledgements:

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

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.
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