PT-2015-3404 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox+7

Eric Rahm · Published 2015-05-12 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2015-2716

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 38.0 Mozilla Firefox ESR versions 31.x prior to 31.7 Thunderbird versions prior to 31.7

Description The issue is caused by a buffer overflow in the XML parser, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by providing a large amount of compressed XML data.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 38.0, update to version 38.0 or later. For Mozilla Firefox ESR versions 31.x prior to 31.7, update to version 31.7 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 31.7, update to version 31.7 or later.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1463

ALT-PU-2015-1464

ALT-PU-2015-1584

BDU:2021-03335

CESA-2015_0988

CESA-2015_1012

CESA-2020_1011

CVE-2015-2716

DSA-3260-1

DSA-3264-1

MGASA-2015-0234

MGASA-2015-0342

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2015:0988

RHSA-2015:1012

RHSA-2015_0988

RHSA-2015_1012

RHSA-2020:1011

RHSA-2020:2508

RHSA-2020_1011

SUSE-SU-2015:0960-1

USN-2602-1

USN-2603-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox

Firefox Esr

Red Hat

Suse

Thunderbird

Ubuntu

References · 2328

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_pdfjs_privilege_escalation.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_proxy_prototype.rb · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09904 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3264-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09888 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09892 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1584 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-51 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2716 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-40 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1581 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox-esr · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09816 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09901 · Security Note