1315566 – (CVE-2016-1952) CVE-2016-1952 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:38.7) (MFSA 2016-16)

Bug 1315566 (CVE-2016-1952) - CVE-2016-1952 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:38.7) (MFSA 2016-16)

Summary: CVE-2016-1952 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:38.7) (MFSA 20...

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	CVE-2016-1952
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	urgent
Severity:	urgent
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks:	1313724
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2016-03-08 05:48 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2021-02-17 04:13 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)
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Last Closed:	2016-03-28 05:22:31 UTC
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System	ID	Private	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:0373	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2016-03-09 10:11:19 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:0460	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2016-03-16 21:36:05 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-03-08 05:48:07 UTC

Mozilla developers 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. 

Bob Clary, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Daniel Holbert, Jesse Ruderman, and Randell Jesup reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR 38.6 and Firefox 44.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-16.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Bob Clary, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Andrew McCreight, Daniel Holbert, Jesse Ruderman, Randell Jesup

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-09 05:11:53 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:0373 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0373.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-16 17:36:59 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:0460 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0460.html

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