Mozilla developers and community identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. In general these flaws cannot be exploited through email in the Thunderbird product because scripting is disabled, but are potentially a risk in browser or browser-like contexts. Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Nils Ohlmeier, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Carsten Book, and Randell Jesup reported memory safety problems and crashes that affect Firefox ESR 38.5 and Firefox 43. External Reference: https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-01.html Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Nils Ohlmeier, Gary Kwong, Jesse Ruderman, Carsten Book, and Randell Jesup as the original reporters.
Public now via upstream advisory MFSA 2016-01.
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Via RHSA-2016:0071 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0071.html
This issue has been addressed in the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2016:0258 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0258.html