PT-2015-2180 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox+6

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Published

2015-09-22

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Updated

2024-10-22

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CVE-2015-4522

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 an "overflow" in the nsUnicodeToUTF8::GetMaxLength function, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service, such as memory corruption and application crash, or possibly have other unspecified impacts. The vulnerability is caused by a buffer overflow.
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

DoS

Buffer Overflow

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1816
ALT-PU-2016-1454
BDU:2015-11526
CESA-2015_1834
CESA-2015_1852
CVE-2015-4522
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
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

Affected Products

Alt Linux
Centos
Firefox
Firefox Esr
Red Hat
Suse
Ubuntu