Bug 1291587 (CVE-2015-7212)

Summary: CVE-2015-7212 Mozilla: Integer overflow allocating extremely large textures (MFSA 2015-139)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-15 08:42:15 UTC 
Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover an integer overflow when when allocating textures of extremely larges sizes during graphics operations. This results in a potentially exploitable crash when triggered. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-139.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Abhishek Arya as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-16 18:23:40 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2015:2657 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2657.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-01-05 15:35:07 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:0001 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0001.html