PT-2015-4892 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+3

Atte Kettunen · Published 2015-02-24 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2015-0823

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 36.0

Description The issue is related to multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in the OpenType Sanitiser, which might allow remote attackers to trigger problematic Developer Console information or possibly have unspecified other impact. This is achieved by leveraging incorrect macro expansion, related to the ots::ots gasp parse function.

Recommendations For versions prior to 36.0, update to version 36.0 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1275

ALT-PU-2015-1464

CVE-2015-0823

OPENSUSE-SU-2015_0404-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

USN-2505-1

USN-2505-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Firefox

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 2095

• 🔥 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://github.com/khaledhosny/ots/commit/003c62d28ae438aa8943cb31535563397f838a2c · Patch
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0829 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0831 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0823 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0825 · Vendor Advisory
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-23 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2505-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0823 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0819 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0820 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0834 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-23.html · Vendor Advisory