Bug 1265617 (CVE-2015-4506)

Summary:	CVE-2015-4506 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in libvpx while parsing vp9 format video (MFSA 2015-101)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Prasad Pandit <ppandit>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cschalle, gecko-bugs-nobody, jhorak, stransky
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Description Prasad Pandit 2015-09-23 11:09:56 UTC

Security researcher Khalil Zhani reported that a maliciously crafted vp9
format video could be used to trigger a buffer overflow while parsing the
file. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash due to a flaw in the
libvpx library.

Reference:
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  -> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1192226
  -> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4506

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-09-24 12:33:02 UTC

External References:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-101/

Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2015-09-24 18:40:29 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1834 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1834.html