PT-2015-2188 · 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-2015-7176

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 Firefox versions prior to 41.0 Firefox ESR versions prior to 38.3
Description The issue is related to the AnimationThread function in Firefox and Firefox ESR, which is caused by a buffer overflow due to the incorrect use of the sscanf function. This could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service, potentially leading to an application crash. The exploitation might also have other unspecified impacts.
Recommendations For Firefox versions prior to 41.0, update to version 41.0 or later. For 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:2015-11534
CESA-2015_1834
CESA-2015_1852
CVE-2015-7176
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