Bug 1315566 (CVE-2016-1952)

Summary: CVE-2016-1952 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:38.7) (MFSA 2016-16)
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 2016-03-08 05:48:07 UTC 
Mozilla developers and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. 

Bob Clary, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Daniel Holbert, Jesse Ruderman, and Randell Jesup reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR 38.6 and Firefox 44.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-16.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Bob Clary, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Daniel Holbert, Jesse Ruderman, Randell Jesup
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-09 05:11:53 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-2016:0373 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0373.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-16 17:36:59 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:0460 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0460.html