Bug 1301821 (CVE-2016-1935) - CVE-2016-1935 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in WebGL after out of memory allocation (MFSA 2016-03)
Summary: CVE-2016-1935 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in WebGL after out of memory allocatio...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-1935
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
urgent
urgent
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1300522
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-01-26 04:09 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 11:36 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-02-19 03:54:50 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0071 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2016-01-27 09:23:05 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0258 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2016-02-18 20:23:52 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-01-26 04:09:33 UTC
Security researcher Aki Helin used the Address Sanitizer tool to find a buffer overflow write when rendering some WebGL content. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-03.html


Acknowledgements:

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

Comment 1 Tomas Hoger 2016-01-26 20:09:29 UTC
Public now via upstream advisory MFSA 2016-03.

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-01-27 04:24:17 UTC
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

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2016-02-18 15:25:26 UTC
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


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