Bug 1330266 (CVE-2016-2805)

Summary:	CVE-2016-2805 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:38.8) (MFSA 2016-39)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Siddharth Sharma <sisharma>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	urgent
Version:	unspecified	CC:	jhorak, security-response-team, stransky
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OS:	Linux
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Bug Depends On:	1334165, 1334166, 1334167, 1334168, 1334169
Bug Blocks:	1306172

Description Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 18:38:08 UTC

Mozilla developers 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.

Christian Holler reported a memory safety problem that is fixed in Firefox ESR 38.8.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-39.html

Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 18:38:17 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Christian Holler

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-26 19:45:14 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:0695 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0695.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-12 06:32:01 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:1041 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1041.html