Bug 1395066 – CVE-2016-5290 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 45.5 (MFSA 2016-90)

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Bug 1395066 - (CVE-2016-5290) CVE-2016-5290 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 45.5 (MFSA 2016-90)

Summary:	CVE-2016-5290 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 45.5 (MFSA 2016-90)

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2016-5290

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

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Blocks:	1392803
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Reported:	2016-11-14 22:56 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-11-29 00:50 EST (History)
CC List:	5 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2016-11-29 00:50:32 EST
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:2780	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2016-11-16 08:19:10 EST
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:2825	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2016-11-29 04:18:04 EST

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-11-14 22:56:32 EST

Mozilla developers and community members Olli Pettay, Christian Holler, Ehsan Akhgari, Jon Coppeard, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, Philipp, and Randell Jesup reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45.4. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-90.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Olli Pettay, Christian Holler, Ehsan Akhgari, Jon Coppeard, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, Philipp, and Randell Jesup

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-16 03:20:44 EST

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-2016:2780 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-28 23:18:48 EST

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-2016:2825 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2825.html

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