Bug 1265630 (CVE-2015-4511) - CVE-2015-4511 Mozilla: Buffer overflow while decoding WebM video (MFSA 2015-105)
Summary: CVE-2015-4511 Mozilla: Buffer overflow while decoding WebM video (MFSA 2015-105)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-4511
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1261782
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-09-23 11:44 UTC by Prasad Pandit
Modified: 2023-05-12 14:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-09-29 06:51:22 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1834 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2015-09-24 22:40:01 UTC

Description Prasad Pandit 2015-09-23 11:44:31 UTC 
Using the Address Sanitizer tool, security researcher Atte Kettunen discovered
a buffer overflow in the nestegg library when decoding a WebM format video
with maliciously formatted headers. This leads to a potentially exploitable
crash.

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-105/
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-09-24 12:34:49 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Atte Kettunen as the original reporter.
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2015-09-24 18:40:33 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Via RHSA-2015:1834 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1834.html
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