Bug 1443325 (CVE-2017-5438) - CVE-2017-5438 Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsAutoPtr during XSLT processing (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)
Summary: CVE-2017-5438 Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsAutoPtr during XSLT processing (MF...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-5438
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: 1437814
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-04-19 06:19 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-25 22:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-05-12 05:54:56 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1104 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2017-04-20 12:21:32 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1106 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2017-04-21 04:49:25 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2017:1201 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2017-05-08 10:45:45 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2017-04-19 06:19:08 UTC 
A use-after-free vulnerability during XSLT processing due to the result handler being held by a freed handler during handling. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-11/#CVE-2017-5438


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Nicolas Grégoire
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-20 08:23:41 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2017:1104 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1104
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-21 00:52:02 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1106 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1106
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2017-05-08 06:48:39 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2017:1201 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1201
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