Bug 1404087 – CVE-2016-9897 Mozilla: Memory corruption in libGLES (MFSA 2016-94, MFSA 2016-95)

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Bug 1404087 - (CVE-2016-9897) CVE-2016-9897 Mozilla: Memory corruption in libGLES (MFSA 2016-94, MFSA 2016-95)

Summary:	CVE-2016-9897 Mozilla: Memory corruption in libGLES (MFSA 2016-94, MFSA 2016-95)

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2016-9897

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

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Blocks:	1403856
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Reported:	2016-12-12 22:05 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-12-18 23:47 EST (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)

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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:2946	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2016-12-14 10:01:08 EST

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-12 22:05:07 EST

Memory corruption resulting in a potentially exploitable crash during WebGL functions using a vector constructor with a varying array within libGLES.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-95/#CVE-2016-9897


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Aral

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-12-14 05:02:02 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-2016:2946 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2946.html

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