PT-2015-1790 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox Os+7

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Published

2015-08-11

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Updated

2024-12-12

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CVE-2015-4487

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

VectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 40.0 Firefox ESR versions prior to 38.2 Firefox OS versions prior to 2.2
Description The issue is related to an "overflow" in the nsTSubstring::ReplacePrep function, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact. The vulnerability is caused by 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. For Firefox OS versions prior to 2.2, update to version 2.2 or later.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1704
ALT-PU-2016-1454
BDU:2015-11136
CESA-2015_1586
CESA-2015_1682
CVE-2015-4487
DSA-3333-1
DSA-3410-1
MGASA-2015-0312
MGASA-2015-0330
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-2015:1682
RHSA-2015_1586
RHSA-2015_1682
SUSE-SU-2015:1449-1
SUSE-SU-2015:1476-1
SUSE-SU-2015:1528-1
USN-2702-1
USN-2702-2
USN-2702-3
USN-2712-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux
Centos
Firefox Esr
Firefox Os
Firefox
Red Hat
Suse
Ubuntu