Bug 1330270 (CVE-2016-2806)

Summary: CVE-2016-2806 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:46.0 / rv:45.1) (MFSA 2016-39)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Siddharth Sharma <sisharma>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 18:41:29 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.

Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Carsten Book, Boris Zbarsky, David Bolter, and Randell Jesup reported memory safety problems and crashes that are fixed in Firefox ESR 45.1 and Firefox 46.

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https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-39.html
Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 18:41:37 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Carsten Book, Boris Zbarsky, David Bolter, Randell Jesup
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-26 19:45:20 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