Bug 1377666 (CVE-2016-5256)

Summary:	CVE-2016-5256 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 49 (MFSA 2016-85)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Siddharth Sharma <sisharma>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Siddharth Sharma 2016-09-20 10:36:27 UTC

Mozilla developers Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Nathan Froyd, Honza Bambas, Seth Fowler, and Michael Smith reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 48. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances could potentially exploited to run arbitrary code.

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html

Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2016-09-20 10:36:36 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Nathan Froyd, Honza Bambas, Seth Fowler, Michael Smith