CVE-2013-0800

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2013-0800  

Integer signedness error in the pixman_fill_sse2 function in pixman-sse2.c in Pixman, as distributed with Cairo and used in Mozilla Firefox before 20.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, Thunderbird before 17.0.5, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, SeaMonkey before 2.17, and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted values that trigger attempted use of a (1) negative box boundary or (2) negative box size, leading to an out-of-bounds write operation.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Integer signedness error in the pixman_fill_sse2 function in pixman-sse2.c in Pixman, as distributed with Cairo and used in Mozilla Firefox before 20.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, Thunderbird before 17.0.5, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.5, SeaMonkey before 2.17, and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted values that trigger attempted use of a (1) negative box boundary or (2) negative box size, leading to an out-of-bounds write operation.

Find out more about CVE-2013-0800 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

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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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2013:0697 2013-04-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2013:0697 2013-04-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2013:0696 2013-04-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2013:0696 2013-04-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2013:0697 2013-04-02

Acknowledgements

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

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