Bug 1317560 (CVE-2016-1969)

Summary:	CVE-2016-1969 mozilla: out-of-bounds write with malicious font in graphite2 (MFSA 2016-38)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
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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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	Firefox 45, Firefox ESR 38.6.1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2016-03-28 05:20:27 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	1308507

Description Andrej Nemec 2016-03-14 14:48:30 UTC

Security researcher James Clawson used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover an out-of-bounds write in the Graphite 2 library when loading a crafted Graphite font file. This results in a potentially exploitable crash.

External references:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2016-38/

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-03-28 05:20:27 UTC

This security flaw was addressed in the following Firefox update:

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0197.html