Bug 1330266 – CVE-2016-2805 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:38.8) (MFSA 2016-39)

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Bug 1330266 - (CVE-2016-2805) CVE-2016-2805 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:38.8) (MFSA 2016-39)

Summary:	CVE-2016-2805 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:38.8) (MFSA 20...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2016-2805

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

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1334165 1334166 1334167 1334168 1334169
Blocks:	1306172
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Reported:	2016-04-25 14:38 EDT by Siddharth Sharma
Modified:	2016-05-12 02:43 EDT (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2016-05-12 02:43:23 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:0695	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2016-04-26 19:44:33 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:1041	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2016-05-12 06:31:09 EDT

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Description Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 14:38:08 EDT

Mozilla developers 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.

Christian Holler reported a memory safety problem that is fixed in Firefox ESR 38.8.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-39.html

Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 14:38:17 EDT

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Christian Holler

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-26 15:45:14 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:0695 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0695.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2016-05-12 02:32:01 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:1041 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1041.html

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