Bug 1361979 – CVE-2016-5252 Mozilla: Stack underflow during 2D graphics rendering (MFSA 2016-67)

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Bug 1361979 - (CVE-2016-5252) CVE-2016-5252 Mozilla: Stack underflow during 2D graphics rendering (MFSA 2016-67)

Summary:	CVE-2016-5252 Mozilla: Stack underflow during 2D graphics rendering (MFSA 201...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2016-5252

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

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Blocks:	1360577
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Reported:	2016-08-01 02:22 EDT by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-09-23 01:31 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

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-08-01 02:22:28 EDT

Georg Koppen of the Tor Project used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a stack buffer underflow when calculating clipping regions in 2D graphics. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-67.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Georg Koppen

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-08-03 04:08:42 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

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