Bug 1416271 (CVE-2017-5375) - CVE-2017-5375 Mozilla: Excessive JIT code allocation allows bypass of ASLR and DEP (MFSA 2017-02)
Summary: CVE-2017-5375 Mozilla: Excessive JIT code allocation allows bypass of ASLR an...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-5375
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: 1414732
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Reported: 2017-01-25 06:12 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-25 20:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-02-02 06:27:40 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0190 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2017-02-21 17:18:56 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:0238 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2017-02-02 09:38:23 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-01-25 06:12:17 UTC 
JIT code allocation can allow for a bypass of ASLR and DEP protections leading to potential memory corruption attacks.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-02/#CVE-2017-5375

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Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Rh0
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-01-25 09:32:52 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-2017:0190 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0190.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2017-02-02 04:39:21 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2017:0238 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0238.html
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