Bug 1315578 (CVE-2016-1962) - CVE-2016-1962 Mozilla: Use-after-free when using multiple WebRTC data channels (MFSA 2016-25)
Summary: CVE-2016-1962 Mozilla: Use-after-free when using multiple WebRTC data channel...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-1962
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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urgent
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2016-03-08 06:14 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-03-09 08:38:06 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

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-03-08 06:14:59 UTC 
Security researcher Dominique Hazaël-Massieux reported a use-after-free issue when using multiple WebRTC data channel connections. This causes a potentially exploitable crash when a data channel connection is freed from within a call through it. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-25.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Dominique Hazaël-Massieux
Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-09 05:12:31 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
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