Bug 1315577 – CVE-2016-1961 Mozilla: Use-after-free in SetBody (MFSA 2016-24)

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Bug 1315577 - (CVE-2016-1961) CVE-2016-1961 Mozilla: Use-after-free in SetBody (MFSA 2016-24)

Summary:	CVE-2016-1961 Mozilla: Use-after-free in SetBody (MFSA 2016-24)

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2016-1961

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

Priority	urgent Severity urgent
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Keywords:	Security

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Blocks:	1313724
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Reported:	2016-03-08 01:13 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-03-28 01:23 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2016-03-28 01:23:32 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:0373	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2016-03-09 05:11:19 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:0460	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2016-03-16 17:36:05 EDT

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-03-08 01:13:19 EST

Security researcher lokihardt, working with HP's Zero Day Initiative, reported a use-after-free issue in the SetBody function of HTMLDocument. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-24.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: lokihardt

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-09 00:12:25 EST

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 13:37:23 EDT

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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