Bug 1315778 – CVE-2016-1966 Mozilla: Memory corruption with malicious NPAPI plugin (MFSA 2016-31)

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Bug 1315778 - (CVE-2016-1966) CVE-2016-1966 Mozilla: Memory corruption with malicious NPAPI plugin (MFSA 2016-31)

Summary:	CVE-2016-1966 Mozilla: Memory corruption with malicious NPAPI plugin (MFSA 20...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2016-1966

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

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Blocks:	1313724
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Reported:	2016-03-08 10:13 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 01:23:58 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 10:13:07 EST

The Communications Electronics Security Group (UK) of the GCHQ reported a dangling pointer dereference within the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) that could lead to the NPAPI subsystem crashing. This issue requires a maliciously crafted NPAPI plugin in concert with scripted web content, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash when triggered. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-31.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: the Communications Electronics Security Group (UK) of the GCHQ

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-09 00:12:47 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 13:37:34 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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