PT-2015-1793 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox+6

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Published

2015-08-11

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Updated

2024-12-12

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CVE-2015-4492

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 Mozilla Firefox ESR versions prior to 38.2
Description A use-after-free issue in the XMLHttpRequest::Open implementation might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a SharedWorker object that makes recursive calls to the open method of an XMLHttpRequest object. This could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 40.0, update to version 40.0 or later. For Mozilla Firefox ESR versions prior to 38.2, update to version 38.2 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Use After Free

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1704
ALT-PU-2016-1454
BDU:2015-11139
CESA-2015_1586
CVE-2015-4492
DSA-3333-1
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
Firefox Esr
Red Hat
Suse
Ubuntu