Bug 1315782 (CVE-2016-1973) - CVE-2016-1973 Mozilla: Use-after-free in GetStaticInstance in WebRTC (MFSA 2016-33)
Summary: CVE-2016-1973 Mozilla: Use-after-free in GetStaticInstance in WebRTC (MFSA 20...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-1973
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1313724
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Reported: 2016-03-08 15:19 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-03-28 05:34:48 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

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-03-08 15:19:51 UTC
Security researcher Ronald Crane reported a race condition in GetStaticInstance in WebRTC which results in a use-after-free. This could result in a potentially exploitable crash. This issue was found through code inspection and does not have clear mechanism to be exploited through web content but is vulnerable if a mechanism can be found to trigger it. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-33.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Ronald Crane

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-09 05:12:52 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


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