Bug 1395066 (CVE-2016-5290)

Summary: CVE-2016-5290 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 45.5 (MFSA 2016-90)
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 03:56:32 UTC 
Mozilla developers and community members Olli Pettay, Christian Holler, Ehsan Akhgari, Jon Coppeard, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, Philipp, and Randell Jesup reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45.4. 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/announce/2016/mfsa2016-90.html


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Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Olli Pettay, Christian Holler, Ehsan Akhgari, Jon Coppeard, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, Philipp, and Randell Jesup
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-16 08:20:44 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:2780 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html
Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-29 04:18:48 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:2825 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2825.html