Bug 1377549 – CVE-2016-5278 Mozilla: Heap-buffer-overflow in nsBMPEncoder::AddImageFrame (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)

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Bug 1377549 - (CVE-2016-5278) CVE-2016-5278 Mozilla: Heap-buffer-overflow in nsBMPEncoder::AddImageFrame (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)

Summary:	CVE-2016-5278 Mozilla: Heap-buffer-overflow in nsBMPEncoder::AddImageFrame (M...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2016-5278

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

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Blocks:	1369653
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Reported:	2016-09-20 01:44 EDT by Siddharth Sharma
Modified:	2016-10-03 22:39 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:1912	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2016-09-21 07:47:31 EDT

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Description Siddharth Sharma 2016-09-20 01:44:02 EDT

A potentially exploitable crash caused by a buffer overflow while encoding image frames to images

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-85/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-86/

Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2016-09-20 01:44:10 EDT

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Nils

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-09-21 03:49:42 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-2016:1912 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1912.html

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