Bug 1330275 – CVE-2016-2811 Mozilla: Use-after-free and buffer overflow in Service Workers (MFSA 2016-42)

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Bug 1330275 - (CVE-2016-2811) CVE-2016-2811 Mozilla: Use-after-free and buffer overflow in Service Workers (MFSA 2016-42)

Summary:	CVE-2016-2811 Mozilla: Use-after-free and buffer overflow in Service Workers ...

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2016-2811

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

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Reported:	2016-04-25 14:52 EDT by Siddharth Sharma
Modified:	2016-05-09 00:49 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2016-05-09 00:49:41 EDT
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Description Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 14:52:38 EDT

Security researcher Looben Yang reported issue discovered in Service Workers using Address Sanitizer.

use-after-free vulnerability caused by ServiceWorkerInfo object being kept active beyond the life its owning registration. When it is later called through this registration, a use-after-free results.

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-42.html

Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 14:52:45 EDT

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Looben Yang

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