PT-2015-1965 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox+6

Ucha Gobejishvili · Published 2015-06-14 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2015-4497

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 40.0.3 Firefox ESR versions prior to 38.2.1

Description The issue is related to a use-after-free vulnerability in the CanvasRenderingContext2D implementation, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This is achieved by leveraging improper interaction between resize events and changes to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences for a CANVAS element. The vulnerability can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 40.0.3, update to version 40.0.3 or later to resolve the issue. For Firefox ESR versions prior to 38.2.1, update to version 38.2.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1539

ALT-PU-2015-1669

ALT-PU-2015-1730

ALT-PU-2015-1816

BDU:2015-11311

CESA-2015_1693

CVE-2015-4497

DSA-3345-1

MGASA-2015-0331

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2015:1693

RHSA-2015_1693

SUSE-SU-2015:1476-1

SUSE-SU-2015:1504-1

SUSE-SU-2015_1504-1

USN-2723-1

ZDI-15-406

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox Esr

Firefox

Red Hat

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2240

• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-15-406 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0331 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4497 · Vendor Advisory
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1693.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4498 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-10577 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-11533 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-11511 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4516 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2726 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-10816 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-10558 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2735 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-10552 · Security Note