Bug 1330270 (CVE-2016-2806) - CVE-2016-2806 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:46.0 / rv:45.1) (MFSA 2016-39)
Summary: CVE-2016-2806 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:46.0 / rv:45.1...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-2806
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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Blocks: 1306172
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-04-25 18:41 UTC by Siddharth Sharma
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:59 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-05-02 09:23:36 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:0695 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2016-04-26 23:44:33 UTC

Description Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 18:41:29 UTC
Mozilla developers fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Carsten Book, Boris Zbarsky, David Bolter, and Randell Jesup reported memory safety problems and crashes that are fixed in Firefox ESR 45.1 and Firefox 46.

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https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-39.html

Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 18:41:37 UTC
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Gary Kwong, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Carsten Book, Boris Zbarsky, David Bolter, Randell Jesup

Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-04-26 19:45:20 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-2016:0695 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0695.html


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