Bug 1625526 (CVE-2018-12377) - CVE-2018-12377 Mozilla: Use-after-free in driver timers
Summary: CVE-2018-12377 Mozilla: Use-after-free in driver timers
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-12377
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1623016 1623017 1623037 1623039 1623040 1625533 1625535 1636821
Blocks: 1623023 1636820
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Reported: 2018-09-05 07:14 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-26 03:57 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-11-05 11:50:06 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:2692 0 None None None 2018-09-12 10:56:01 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:2693 0 None None None 2018-09-12 10:57:47 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:3403 0 None None None 2018-10-30 16:58:21 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:3458 0 None None None 2018-11-05 10:44:07 UTC

Description Doran Moppert 2018-09-05 07:14:34 UTC 
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when driver timers are refreshed in some circumstances during shutdown when the timer is deleted while still in use. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.



External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-21/#CVE-2018-12377
Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-09-05 07:14:38 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Nils
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2018-09-12 10:55:55 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:2692 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2692
Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2018-09-12 10:57:41 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:2693 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2693
Comment 7 Doran Moppert 2018-10-09 01:58:48 UTC 
Statement:

This flaw cannot be exploited through email in Thunderbird as scripting is disabled in this for email content. It may be possible to exploit through Feeds (Atom or RSS) or other browser-like contexts.
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2018-10-30 16:58:16 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:3403 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3403
Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2018-11-05 10:44:00 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:3458 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3458
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