Bug 1395057 (CVE-2016-5292) - CVE-2016-5292 Mozilla: URL parsing causes crash (MFSA 2016-89)
Summary: CVE-2016-5292 Mozilla: URL parsing causes crash (MFSA 2016-89)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2016-5292
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: 2016-11-15 03:29 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:03 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-11-18 14:53:20 UTC
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-11-15 03:29:26 UTC 
During URL parsing, a maliciously crafted URL can cause a potentially exploitable crash.


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-89.html


Acknowledgements:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Daniel Browning

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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