Bug 1315573 (CVE-2016-1957) - CVE-2016-1957 Mozilla: Memory leak in libstagefright when deleting an array during MP4 processing (MFSA 2016-20)
Summary: CVE-2016-1957 Mozilla: Memory leak in libstagefright when deleting an array d...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-1957
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: 1313724
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Reported: 2016-03-08 06:06 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-03-28 05:23:01 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0373 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2016-03-09 10:11:19 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0460 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2016-03-16 21:36:05 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-03-08 06:06:49 UTC 
Security researchers Jose Martinez and Romina Santillan reported a memory leak in the libstagefright library when array destruction occurs during MPEG4 video file processing. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-20.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Jose Martinez, Romina Santillan
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-09 05:12:04 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-2016:0373 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0373.html
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-16 17:37:11 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

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

Via RHSA-2016:0460 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0460.html
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