Bug 1220608 – CVE-2015-2717 Mozilla: Buffer overflow and out-of-bounds read while parsing MP4 video metadata (MFSA 2015-55)

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Bug 1220608 - (CVE-2015-2717) CVE-2015-2717 Mozilla: Buffer overflow and out-of-bounds read while parsing MP4 video metadata (MFSA 2015-55)

Summary:	CVE-2015-2717 Mozilla: Buffer overflow and out-of-bounds read while parsing M...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2015-2717

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2015-05-11 21:19 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-03-04 07:36 EST (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Last Closed:	2015-05-12 14:27:11 EDT
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-05-11 21:19:59 EDT

Security researcher laf.intel reported a buffer overflow and out-of-bounds read in the libstagefright library while parsing invalid metadata in MP4 video files. This can lead to a potentially exploitable crash. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-55.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges laf.intel as the original reporter.

Statement:

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

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