Bug 1207078 (CVE-2015-0805, CVE-2015-0806) - CVE-2015-0805 CVE-2015-0806 Mozilla: Memory corruption crashes in Off Main Thread Compositing (MFSA 2015-38)
Summary: CVE-2015-0805 CVE-2015-0806 Mozilla: Memory corruption crashes in Off Main Th...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-0805, CVE-2015-0806
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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urgent
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1205778
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Reported: 2015-03-30 08:11 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 07:43 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-04-01 10:02:15 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-03-30 08:11:03 UTC 
Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover to memory corruption crashes during 2D graphics rendering due to problems in Off Main Thread Compositing. These crashes are potentially exploitable. 

External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-38.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Abhishek Arya  as the original reporter.

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This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.
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