Bug 1252295 (CVE-2015-4492) - CVE-2015-4492 Mozilla: Use-after-free in XMLHttpRequest with shared workers (MFSA 2015-92)
Summary: CVE-2015-4492 Mozilla: Use-after-free in XMLHttpRequest with shared workers (...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-4492
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1251515
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Reported: 2015-08-11 06:37 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 10:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-08-12 04:38:00 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1586 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2015-08-11 23:47:14 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-08-11 06:37:20 UTC 
Security researcher Looben Yang discovered a use-after-free vulnerability when recursively calling .open() on an XMLHttpRequest in a SharedWorker.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-92.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Looben Yang as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2015-08-11 19:48:30 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2015:1586 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1586.html
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