Bug 1416273 (CVE-2017-5378) - CVE-2017-5378 Mozilla: Pointer and frame data leakage of Javascript objects (MFSA 2017-02)
Summary: CVE-2017-5378 Mozilla: Pointer and frame data leakage of Javascript objects (...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-5378
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: 1414732
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-01-25 06:17 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-25 20:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-02-02 06:24:35 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 06:17:38 UTC 
Hashed codes of JavaScript objects are shared between pages. This allows for pointer leaks because an object’s address can be discovered through hash codes, and also allows for data leakage of an object’s content using these hash codes.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-02/#CVE-2017-5378

Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Jann Horn
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-01-25 09:33:04 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 04:39:34 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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