Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2015-0805
The Off Main Thread Compositing (OMTC) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 makes an incorrect memset call during interaction with the mozilla::layers::BufferTextureClient::AllocateForSurface function, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via vectors that trigger rendering of 2D graphics content.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.036 (89.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 89.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.036 · newest: 0.036 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
- openSUSE — versions 13.1, 13.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1031996 (vdb-entry)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10 (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-38.html (Vendor Advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2550-1 (vendor-advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00003.html (vendor-advisory)