Bug 1291587 (CVE-2015-7212) - CVE-2015-7212 Mozilla: Integer overflow allocating extremely large textures (MFSA 2015-139)
Summary: CVE-2015-7212 Mozilla: Integer overflow allocating extremely large textures (...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-7212
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1290704
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-12-15 08:42 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 11:26 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-01-05 19:46:13 UTC

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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:2657 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2015-12-16 23:20:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0001 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2016-01-05 20:33:59 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2015-12-15 08:42:15 UTC 
Security researcher Abhishek Arya (Inferno) of the Google Chrome Security Team used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover an integer overflow when when allocating textures of extremely larges sizes during graphics operations. This results in a potentially exploitable crash when triggered. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-139.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Abhishek Arya as the original reporter.
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2015-12-16 18:23:40 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2015:2657 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-2657.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-01-05 15:35:07 UTC 
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-2016:0001 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0001.html
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