Bug 1377543 (CVE-2016-5257)

Summary:	CVE-2016-5257 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox ESR 45.4 (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Siddharth Sharma <sisharma>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	cschalle, jhorak, security-response-team, stransky
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Description Siddharth Sharma 2016-09-20 05:18:34 UTC

Mozilla developers and community members Christoph Diehl, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard, Steve Fink, Tyson Smith, Philipp, and Carsten Book reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 48 and Firefox ESR 45.3. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-85/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-86/

Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2016-09-20 05:18:43 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Mozilla developers, Christoph Diehl, Andrew McCreight, Dan Minor, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard, Steve Fink, Tyson Smith, Philipp, Carsten Book

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-09-21 07:49:35 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-2016:1912 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1912.html

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2016-10-03 17:22:45 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:1985 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1985.html