PT-2015-1763 · Mozilla+6 · Firefox+7

Abhishek Arya · Published 2015-08-11 · Updated 2024-10-22 · CVE-2015-4486

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 the decrease ref count function in the libvpx library, which can be exploited by remote attackers using malformed WebM video data. This can lead to the execution of arbitrary code or cause a denial of service due to an out-of-bounds read. The vulnerability is also described as a buffer overflow.

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

DoS

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1704

ALT-PU-2016-1454

BDU:2015-11109

CESA-2015_1586

CVE-2015-4486

MGASA-2015-0312

OPENSUSE-SU-2015_1389-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2015_1390-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

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 · 1328

• 🔥 https://github.com/llamakko/CVE-2015-7214 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1968 · Security Note
• 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-2015-4479 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-2702-2 · Vendor Advisory
• 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
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4484 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-00751 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4506 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-01153 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-01156 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1975 · Security Note