Bug 1315578 (CVE-2016-1962)

Summary:	CVE-2016-1962 Mozilla: Use-after-free when using multiple WebRTC data channels (MFSA 2016-25)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	cschalle, jhorak, jrusnack, security-response-team, stransky
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-03-08 06:14:59 UTC

Security researcher Dominique Hazaël-Massieux reported a use-after-free issue when using multiple WebRTC data channel connections. This causes a potentially exploitable crash when a data channel connection is freed from within a call through it. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-25.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Dominique Hazaël-Massieux

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-09 05:12:31 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