Bug 1377554 (CVE-2016-5272) - CVE-2016-5272 Mozilla: Bad cast in nsImageGeometryMixin (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2016-86)
Summary: CVE-2016-5272 Mozilla: Bad cast in nsImageGeometryMixin (MFSA 2016-85, MFSA 2...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-5272
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: 1369653
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-09-20 06:03 UTC by Siddharth Sharma
Modified: 2021-02-25 17:52 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-10-04 02:43:35 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:1912 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2016-09-21 11:47:31 UTC

Description Siddharth Sharma 2016-09-20 06:03:27 UTC 
A bad cast when processing layout with input elements can result in a potentially exploitable crash.

External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-85/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2016-86/
Comment 1 Siddharth Sharma 2016-09-20 06:03:36 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Abhishek Arya
Comment 2 errata-xmlrpc 2016-09-21 07:49:54 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-2016:1912 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1912.html
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