Bug 1395066 (CVE-2016-5290) - CVE-2016-5290 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 45.5 (MFSA 2016-90)
Summary: CVE-2016-5290 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 45.5 (MFSA 2016-90)
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2016-5290
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: 1392803
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Reported: 2016-11-15 03:56 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-25 19:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-11-29 05:50:32 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:2780 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: firefox security update 2016-11-16 13:19:10 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2016:2825 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: thunderbird security update 2016-11-29 09:18:04 UTC

Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-11-15 03:56:32 UTC
Mozilla developers and community members Olli Pettay, Christian Holler, Ehsan Akhgari, Jon Coppeard, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, Philipp, and Randell Jesup reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 49 and Firefox ESR 45.4. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-90.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Olli Pettay, Christian Holler, Ehsan Akhgari, Jon Coppeard, Gary Kwong, Tooru Fujisawa, Philipp, and Randell Jesup

Comment 1 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-16 08:20:44 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-2016:2780 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2780.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2016-11-29 04:18:48 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-2016:2825 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2825.html


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