Bug 1395057 (CVE-2016-5292)

Summary: CVE-2016-5292 Mozilla: URL parsing causes crash (MFSA 2016-89)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-11-15 03:29:26 UTC
During URL parsing, a maliciously crafted URL can cause a potentially exploitable crash.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-89.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Daniel Browning

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.