Bug 1576261 (CVE-2018-5160) - CVE-2018-5160 Mozilla: Uninitialized memory use by WebRTC encoder
Summary: CVE-2018-5160 Mozilla: Uninitialized memory use by WebRTC encoder
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-5160
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1573375
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Reported: 2018-05-09 07:13 UTC by Doran Moppert
Modified: 2021-02-17 00:21 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:21:58 UTC
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Description Doran Moppert 2018-05-09 07:13:11 UTC 
WebRTC can use a `WrappedI420Buffer` pixel buffer but the owning image object can be freed while it is still in use. This can result in the WebRTC encoder using uninitialized memory, leading to a potentially exploitable crash.



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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/#CVE-2018-5160
Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-05-09 07:13:16 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Andreas Perhson
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