Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2015-7183
Integer overflow in the PL_ARENA_ALLOCATE implementation in Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19.2.1 and 3.20.x before 3.20.1, as used in Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via unspecified vectors.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
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: 0.068 (93.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 93.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.068 · newest: 0.068 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5
- Mozilla Network Security Services — versions 3.20.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/ovmbulletinjul2016-3090546.html
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1034069 (vdb-entry)
- bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa119
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html (vendor-advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10 (vendor-advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2016-2881720.html
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00021.html (vendor-advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi
- www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3406 (vendor-advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/cpujan2016-2367955.html