Bug 1369497 - Firefox: Denial-of-service via crafted SVG image
Summary: Firefox: Denial-of-service via crafted SVG image
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1369500
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Reported: 2016-08-23 14:58 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-08-24 07:31:42 UTC

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Description Andrej Nemec 2016-08-23 14:58:55 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in Mozilla Firefox. Loading a crafted SVG image will cause Firefox to consume all system memory before the system kills it.

Upstream issue:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1297206
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2016-08-23 14:59:00 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Gustavo Grieco
Comment 3 Martin Stransky 2016-08-24 06:46:54 UTC 
This is not a security issue.
Comment 4 Martin Stransky 2016-08-24 06:47:14 UTC 
And it's public.
Comment 5 Andrej Nemec 2016-08-24 07:32:47 UTC 
Upstream does not consider this for a security issue.
Comment 6 Adam Mariš 2016-10-07 09:53:29 UTC 
CVE request:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/48
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