Bug 1443323 (CVE-2017-5441) - CVE-2017-5441 Mozilla: Use-after-free with selection during scroll events (MFSA 2017-11, MFSA 2017-12)
Summary: CVE-2017-5441 Mozilla: Use-after-free with selection during scroll events (MF...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2017-5441
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 06:17 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-25 22:02 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-05-12 05:59:25 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 06:17:04 UTC 
A use-after-free vulnerability when holding a selection during scroll events. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2017-11/#CVE-2017-5441


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Nils
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-20 08:23:27 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 00:51:48 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 06:48:26 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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