Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2015-0806
The Off Main Thread Compositing (OMTC) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 attempts to use memset for a memory region of negative length 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) via vectors that trigger rendering of 2D graphics content.
EPSS: 0.036 (88.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
- Opensuse — versions 13.1, 13.2
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@mozilla.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)