PT-2015-1897 · Mozilla+2 · Firefox+3

Holger Fuhrmannek · Published 2015-08-11 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2015-4482

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/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

Description The issue is caused by a buffer overflow in the Updater component of the browsers, allowing a local attacker to potentially gain privileges or cause a denial of service via a crafted Mozilla Archive (MAR) file.

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

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1704

ALT-PU-2016-1454

BDU:2015-11243

CVE-2015-4482

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

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox Esr

Firefox

Suse

References · 2400

• 🔥 https://github.com/llamakko/CVE-2015-7214 · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-12247 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-2811 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-00757 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-11105 · Security Note
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1968 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-11533 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-11511 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-11982 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4516 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-00528 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-00745 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2016-01152 · Security Note