CVE-2013-0777

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2013-02-19
CWE:
(CWE-416|CWE-125|CWE-119)
Bugzilla:
911868: CVE-2013-0777 CVE-2013-0778 CVE-2013-0779 CVE-2013-0781 Mozilla: Use-after-free, out of bounds read, and buffer overflow issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2013-28)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsDisplayBoxShadowOuter::Paint function in Mozilla Firefox before 19.0, Thunderbird before 17.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.16 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

Find out more about CVE-2013-0777 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 thunderbird Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 firefox Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 thunderbird Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Abhishek Arya as the original reporter.

External References

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