PT-2015-2171 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox+6

Andrew Sutherland

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Published

2015-09-22

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Updated

2024-12-12

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CVE-2015-4509

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 41.0 Mozilla Firefox ESR versions prior to 38.3
Description The issue is related to a use-after-free vulnerability in the HTMLVideoElement interface, which can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted JavaScript code. This code modifies the URI table of a media element.
Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 41.0, update to version 41.0 or later. For Mozilla Firefox ESR versions prior to 38.3, update to version 38.3 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Use After Free

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1816
ALT-PU-2016-1454
BDU:2015-11517
CESA-2015_1834
CESA-2015_1852
CVE-2015-4509
DSA-3365-1
MGASA-2015-0382
MGASA-2015-0387
MGASA-2015-0414
OPENSUSE-SU-2015_1658-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2015_1679-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2015_1681-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1
RHSA-2015:1834
RHSA-2015:1852
RHSA-2015_1834
RHSA-2015_1852
SUSE-SU-2015:1680-1
SUSE-SU-2015:1703-1
USN-2743-1
USN-2743-2
USN-2743-3
USN-2743-4
USN-2754-1
ZDI-15-646

Affected Products

Alt Linux
Centos
Firefox
Firefox Esr
Red Hat
Suse
Ubuntu