Bug 1361974 – CVE-2016-2836 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:45.3) (MFSA 2016-62)

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Bug 1361974 - (CVE-2016-2836) CVE-2016-2836 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:45.3) (MFSA 2016-62)

Summary:	CVE-2016-2836 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:45.3) (MFSA 20...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2016-2836

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

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Reported:	2016-08-01 02:10 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-09-23 01:30 EDT (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:1551	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2016-08-03 08:06:43 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:1809	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2016-09-05 14:14:19 EDT

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-08-01 02:10:18 EDT

Mozilla developers and community members reported 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. 

Carsten Book, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Phil Ringnalda and Philipp reported memory safety problems and crashes that are fixed in Firefox ESR 45.3 and Firefox 48.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-62.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Carsten Book, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Andrew McCreight, Phil Ringnalda, Philipp

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-08-03 04:08:29 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:1551 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-09-05 10:17:10 EDT

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:1809 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1809.html

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