1315785 – (CVE-2016-1974) CVE-2016-1974 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read in HTML parser following a failed allocation (MFSA 2016-34)

Bug 1315785 (CVE-2016-1974) - CVE-2016-1974 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read in HTML parser following a failed allocation (MFSA 2016-34)

Summary: CVE-2016-1974 Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read in HTML parser following a failed a...

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	CVE-2016-1974
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	medium
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks:	1313724
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2016-03-08 15:22 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2021-02-17 04:11 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)
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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2016-03-28 05:24:12 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 15:22:45 UTC

Security researcher Ronald Crane reported an out-of-bounds read following a failed allocation in the HTML parser while working with unicode strings. This can also affect the parsing of XML and SVG format data. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash. 

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-34.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Ronald Crane

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-09 05:12:57 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 17:37:39 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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