Bug 1301820 (CVE-2016-1933) - CVE-2016-1933 Mozilla: Out of Memory crash when parsing GIF format images (MFSA 2016-02)
Summary: CVE-2016-1933 Mozilla: Out of Memory crash when parsing GIF format images (MF...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-1933
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: 1300522
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Reported: 2016-01-26 04:05 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 11:40 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-01-27 04:50:06 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-01-26 04:05:40 UTC
Security researcher Gustavo Grieco reported an out of memory crash when loading maliciously crafted GIF format images. Investigation of the issue determined that the root cause was an error in image parsing code during deinterlacing, leading to a potential integer overflow. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-02.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Gustavo Grieco 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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