Bug 1330277 (CVE-2016-2812) - CVE-2016-2812 Mozilla: Use-after-free and buffer overflow in Service Workers (MFSA 2016-42)
Summary: CVE-2016-2812 Mozilla: Use-after-free and buffer overflow in Service Workers ...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-2812
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2016-04-25 18:54 UTC by Siddharth Sharma
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:58 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-05-09 04:50:45 UTC
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Description Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 18:54:06 UTC 
Security researcher Looben Yang reported issue discovered in Service Workers using Address Sanitizer.

Race condition leading to a buffer overflow was found in the ServiceWorkerManager. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash when triggered. 

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https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-42.html
Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2016-04-25 18:54:13 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Looben Yang
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