Bug 1265186 (CVE-2015-4500) - CVE-2015-4500 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (MFSA 2015-96)
Summary: CVE-2015-4500 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (MFSA 2015-96)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-4500
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1261782
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-09-22 10:53 UTC by Prasad Pandit
Modified: 2023-05-12 14:18 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-10-01 14:04:00 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1834 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2015-09-24 22:40:01 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1852 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2015-10-01 17:25:51 UTC

Description Prasad Pandit 2015-09-22 10:53:16 UTC 
Mozilla developers and community identified and fixed several memory safety
bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products.
Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain
circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these
could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

External References:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-96/
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-09-22 12:02:16 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David Major, Andrew McCreight, and Cameron McCormack as the original reporters of these issues.
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2015-09-22 18:18:21 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-2015:1834 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1834.html
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2015-10-01 13:26:21 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-2015:1852 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1852.html
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