1361992 – (CVE-2016-5264) CVE-2016-5264 Mozilla: Use-after-free when applying SVG effects (MFSA 2016-79)

Bug 1361992 (CVE-2016-5264) - CVE-2016-5264 Mozilla: Use-after-free when applying SVG effects (MFSA 2016-79)

Summary: CVE-2016-5264 Mozilla: Use-after-free when applying SVG effects (MFSA 2016-79)

Keywords:
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA
Alias:	CVE-2016-5264
Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability
Sub Component:
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Priority:	medium
Severity:	medium
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks:	1360577
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2016-08-01 06:40 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified:	2021-02-25 19:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	3 users (show)
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Last Closed:	2016-09-23 05:34:37 UTC
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System	ID	Private	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2016:1551	0	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Critical: firefox security update	2016-08-03 12:06:43 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-08-01 06:40:38 UTC

Security researcher Nils used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover a use-after-free vulnerability when applying effects to SVG elements. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-79.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Nils

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-08-03 08:08:20 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2016:1551 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1551.html

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