Bug 1315785 (CVE-2016-1974)

Summary: CVE-2016-1974 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read in HTML parser following a failed allocation (MFSA 2016-34)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: cschalle, jhorak, security-response-team, stransky
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-03-08 15:22:45 UTC 
Security researcher Ronald Crane reported an out-of-bounds read following a failed allocation in the HTML parser while working with unicode strings. This can also affect the parsing of XML and SVG format data. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash. 

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-34.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Ronald Crane
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-09 05:12:57 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 17:37:39 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