Bug 970377 (CVE-2016-1959) - VUL-0: CVE-2016-1959 Mozilla: Service Worker Manager out-of-bounds read in Service Worker Manager (MFSA 2016-22)
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2016-1959 Mozilla: Service Worker Manager out-of-bounds read in Se...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 969894
Alias: CVE-2016-1959
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Major
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Assignee: Security Team bot
QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/162878/
Whiteboard: CVSSv2:RedHat:CVE-2016-1959:6.8:(AV:N...
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Blocks: 969894
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Reported: 2016-03-09 20:49 UTC by Victor Pereira
Modified: 2019-05-01 17:04 UTC (History)
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Found By: Security Response Team
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Description Victor Pereira 2016-03-09 20:49:12 UTC 
rh#1315575

Security researcher Looben Yang reported a mechanism where the Clients API in Service Workers can be used to trigger an out-of-bounds read in ServiceWorkerManager. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. 


External Reference:

https://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2016/mfsa2016-22.html


References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1315575
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-1959
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-1959.html
Comment 1 Swamp Workflow Management 2016-03-09 23:00:24 UTC 
bugbot adjusting priority
Comment 2 Marcus Meissner 2016-03-16 16:09:49 UTC 
resolved in the main tracker bug 969894

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 969894 ***