Bug 1377666 – CVE-2016-5256 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 49 (MFSA 2016-85)

Bugzilla will be upgraded to version 5.0. The upgrade date is tentatively scheduled for 2 December 2018, pending final testing and feedback.

Bug 1377666 - (CVE-2016-5256) CVE-2016-5256 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 49 (MFSA 2016-85)

Summary:	CVE-2016-5256 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 49 (MFSA 2016-85)

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	CVE-2016-5256

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

Priority	urgent Severity urgent
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Assigned To:	Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact:
Docs Contact:

URL:
Whiteboard:	impact=critical,public=20160920,repor...
Keywords:	Security

Depends On:
Blocks:	1369653
	Show dependency tree / graph

Reported:	2016-09-20 06:36 EDT by Siddharth Sharma
Modified:	2016-10-03 22:49 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

See Also:
Fixed In Version:
Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:
Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:	2016-10-03 22:49:23 EDT
Type:	---
Regression:	---
Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---
CRM:
Verified Versions:
Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---
RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---

Attachments	(Terms of Use)
Add an attachment (proposed patch, testcase, etc.)

Groups: None (edit)

Description Siddharth Sharma 2016-09-20 06:36:27 EDT

Mozilla developers Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Nathan Froyd, Honza Bambas, Seth Fowler, and Michael Smith reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 48. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances could potentially exploited to run arbitrary code.

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-85.html

Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2016-09-20 06:36:36 EDT

Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Gary Kwong, Nathan Froyd, Honza Bambas, Seth Fowler, Michael Smith

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.