1315778 – (CVE-2016-1966) CVE-2016-1966 Mozilla: Memory corruption with malicious NPAPI plugin (MFSA 2016-31)

Bug 1315778 (CVE-2016-1966) - CVE-2016-1966 Mozilla: Memory corruption with malicious NPAPI plugin (MFSA 2016-31)

Summary: CVE-2016-1966 Mozilla: Memory corruption with malicious NPAPI plugin (MFSA 20...

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	CVE-2016-1966
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	high
Severity:	high
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks:	Embargoed1313724
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2016-03-08 15:13 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2021-02-17 04:12 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)
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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2016-03-28 05:23:58 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 15:13:07 UTC

The Communications Electronics Security Group (UK) of the GCHQ reported a dangling pointer dereference within the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) that could lead to the NPAPI subsystem crashing. This issue requires a maliciously crafted NPAPI plugin in concert with scripted web content, resulting in a potentially exploitable crash when triggered. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-31.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: the UK Communications Electronics Security Group of the GCHQ

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-03-09 05:12:47 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 17:37:34 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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