Bug 1315579 (CVE-2016-1963) - CVE-2016-1963 Mozilla: Memory corruption when modifying a file being read by FileReader (MFSA 2016-26)
Summary: CVE-2016-1963 Mozilla: Memory corruption when modifying a file being read by ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-1963
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 06:18 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:12 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-03-09 08:38:20 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-03-08 06:18:27 UTC
Security researcher Oriol reported memory corruption when local files are modified (by either the user or another program) at the same time being read using the FileReader API. This flaw requires that input be taken from a local file in order to be triggered and cannot be triggered by web content. This results in a potentially exploitable crash when triggered. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-26.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: The Mozilla Project
Upstream: Oriol

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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