Bug 1404096 – CVE-2016-9893 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 50.1 and Firefox ESR 45.6 (MFSA 2016-95)

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Bug 1404096 - (CVE-2016-9893) CVE-2016-9893 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 50.1 and Firefox ESR 45.6 (MFSA 2016-95)

Summary:	CVE-2016-9893 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 50.1 and Firefox E...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	CVE-2016-9893

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

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Blocks:	1403856
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Reported:	2016-12-12 22:25 EST by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2016-12-22 01:17 EST (History)
CC List:	4 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
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:2973	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Important: thunderbird security update	2016-12-21 10:00:43 EST

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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-12 22:25:44 EST

Mozilla developers and community members Jan de Mooij, Iris Hsiao, Christian Holler, Carsten Book, Timothy Nikkel, Christoph Diehl, Olli Pettay, Raymond Forbes, and Boris Zbarsky reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 50.0.2 and Firefox ESR 45.5.1. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-95/#CVE-2016-9893


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Jan de Mooij, Iris Hsiao, Christian Holler, Carsten Book, Timothy Nikkel, Christoph Diehl, Olli Pettay, Raymond Forbes, Boris Zbarsky

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-12-14 05:02:31 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

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-12-21 05:01:25 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-2016:2973 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2973.html

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