CVE-2013-0792

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2013-0792  

Mozilla Firefox before 20.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.17, when gfx.color_management.enablev4 is used, do not properly handle color profiles during PNG rendering, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a grayscale PNG image.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Mozilla Firefox before 20.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.17, when gfx.color_management.enablev4 is used, do not properly handle color profiles during PNG rendering, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a grayscale PNG image.

Find out more about CVE-2013-0792 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 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None

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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 Tobias Schula as the original reporter.

External References