Bug 1207075 (CVE-2015-0808) - CVE-2015-0808 Mozilla: Incorrect memory management for simple-type arrays in WebRTC (MFSA 2015-36)
Summary: CVE-2015-0808 Mozilla: Incorrect memory management for simple-type arrays in ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-0808
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1205778
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Reported: 2015-03-30 08:08 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 07:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-04-01 10:02:07 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-03-30 08:08:11 UTC
Security researcher Mitchell Harper used Valgrind to discover incorrect memory management for simple-type arrays in WebRTC. This waas undefined behavior which is theoretically dangerous but was determined to be safe in this instance. 


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http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-36.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Statement:

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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