PT-2015-4893 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+3

Atte Kettunen · Published 2015-02-24 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2015-0824

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 36.0

Description The issue is related to the mozilla::layers::BufferTextureClient::AllocateForSurface function, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service. This can be achieved by triggering the use of DrawTarget and the Cairo library for image drawing, resulting in an out-of-bounds write of zero values and an application crash.

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

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1275

ALT-PU-2015-1464

CVE-2015-0824

MGASA-2015-0126

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 · 2248

• 🔥 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://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-28 · 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/mfsa2015-27 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2505-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-1581 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09816 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09901 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0819 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0824 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2717 · Security Note