Bug 1361975 (CVE-2016-2835) - CVE-2016-2835 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:48.0) (MFSA 2016-62)
Summary: CVE-2016-2835 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:48.0) (MFSA 20...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-2835
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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Blocks: 1360577
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Reported: 2016-08-01 06:11 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-25 18:19 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-08-03 11:34:13 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-08-01 06:11:33 UTC
Mozilla developers and community members reported 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.


Christian Holler, Tyson Smith, Boris Zbarsky, Byron Campen, and Julian Seward reported memory safety problems and crashes that are fixed in Firefox 48.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-62.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Christian Holler, Tyson Smith, Boris Zbarsky, Byron Campen, and Julian Seward

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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