Bug 925397 – VUL-1: CVE-2015-0808: MozillaFirefox: Incorrect memory management for simple-type arrays in WebRTC (MFSA 2015-36)

Bug 925397 - (CVE-2015-0808) VUL-1: CVE-2015-0808: MozillaFirefox: Incorrect memory management for simple-type arrays in WebRTC (MFSA 2015-36)

(CVE-2015-0808)
Summary:	VUL-1: CVE-2015-0808: MozillaFirefox: Incorrect memory management for simple-...

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 925368

Classification:	Novell Products
Product:	SUSE Security Incidents
Classification:	Novell Products
Component:	Incidents
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other openSUSE 13.2

Priority:	P5 - None Severity: Minor
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Assigned To:	Security Team bot
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Blocks:	925368
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Reported:	2015-04-01 10:32 UTC by Andreas Stieger
Modified:	2015-04-08 09:06 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Andreas Stieger 2015-04-01 10:32:58 UTC

Incorrect memory management for simple-type arrays in WebRTC

Announced: March 31, 2015
Reporter: Mitchell Harper
Impact: Low
Products: Firefox
Fixed in: Firefox 37

Description

Security researcher Mitchell Harper used Valgrind to discover incorrect memory management for simple-type arrays in WebRTC. This was undefined behavior which is theoretically dangerous but was determined to be safe in this instance. 

References:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-36/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1109552
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0808

Comment 1 Andreas Stieger 2015-04-01 15:04:50 UTC

Update for openSUSE 13.1 and 13.2 is running, assigning openSUSE only bugs back to security team.

Comment 2 Andreas Stieger 2015-04-02 08:44:09 UTC

merge into parent

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 925368 ***

Comment 3 Swamp Workflow Management 2015-04-08 09:06:01 UTC

openSUSE-SU-2015:0677-1: An update that fixes 15 vulnerabilities is now available.

Category: security (important)
Bug References: 925368,925392,925393,925394,925395,925396,925397,925398,925399,925400,925401,925402,926166
CVE References: CVE-2015-0799,CVE-2015-0801,CVE-2015-0802,CVE-2015-0803,CVE-2015-0804,CVE-2015-0805,CVE-2015-0806,CVE-2015-0807,CVE-2015-0808,CVE-2015-0811,CVE-2015-0812,CVE-2015-0813,CVE-2015-0814,CVE-2015-0815,CVE-2015-0816
Sources used:
openSUSE 13.2 (src):    MozillaFirefox-37.0.1-23.1, MozillaThunderbird-31.6.0-15.3, mozilla-nspr-4.10.8-6.1
openSUSE 13.1 (src):    MozillaFirefox-37.0.1-68.1, MozillaThunderbird-31.6.0-70.50.2, mozilla-nspr-4.10.8-22.1