PT-2015-1762 · Mozilla+6 · Firefox+7

Abhishek Arya + 1 · Published 2015-08-11 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2015-4485

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 40.0 Firefox ESR versions prior to 38.2

Description The issue is related to a heap-based buffer overflow in the resize context buffers function in libvpx, which can be exploited by remote attackers via malformed WebM video data, potentially allowing them to execute arbitrary code.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 40.0, update to version 40.0 or later. For Firefox ESR versions prior to 38.2, update to version 38.2 or later.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1704

ALT-PU-2016-1454

BDU:2015-11108

CESA-2015_1586

CVE-2015-4485

MGASA-2015-0312

OPENSUSE-SU-2015_1389-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2015_1390-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2015:1586

RHSA-2015_1586

SUSE-SU-2015:1449-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1476-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1528-1

USN-2702-1

USN-2702-2

USN-2702-3

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox Esr

Firefox

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

Libvpx

References · 2485

• 🔥 https://github.com/llamakko/CVE-2015-7214 · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-11106 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-00725 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4508 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4493 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-90 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1975 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2798 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2795 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4482 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-4485 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4478 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4495 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1955 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1935 · Security Note