Bug 1537821 (CVE-2018-5099) - CVE-2018-5099 Mozilla: Use-after-free with widget listener (MFSA 2018-03)
Summary: CVE-2018-5099 Mozilla: Use-after-free with widget listener (MFSA 2018-03)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2018-5099
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: 1534345
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-01-23 23:16 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-26 01:41 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-02-02 00:47:34 UTC

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0122 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2018-01-24 15:05:22 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:0262 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2018-02-01 16:28:48 UTC

Description Doran Moppert 2018-01-23 23:16:57 UTC 
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur when the widget listener is holding strong references to browser objects that have previously been freed, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash when these references are used.



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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-03/#CVE-2018-5099
Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-01-23 23:17:02 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Nils
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2018-01-24 10:06:42 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2018:0122 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0122
Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2018-02-01 11:26:40 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2018:0262 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0262
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