CVE-2015-4486 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer8 documents8 sources
Severity
10.0CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.7%
top 17.87%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
Webmproject LibvpxMozilla FirefoxCanonical Ubuntu Linux+2 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 16
Latest updateMay 14

Description

The decrease_ref_count function in libvpx in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via malformed WebM video data.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox39.0.3+4
▶Debianwebmproject/libvpx< 1.4.0-1+3
▶NVDoracle/solaris11.3
▶NVDopensuse/opensuse13.1, 13.2+1

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 14.04, 15.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-4fpr-qvvc-44qw: The decrease_ref_count function in libvpx in Mozilla Firefox before 40↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2015-4486: The decrease_ref_count function in libvpx in Mozilla Firefox before 40↗2015-08-16
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CVEList
CVE-2015-4486: The decrease_ref_count function in libvpx in Mozilla Firefox before 40↗2015-08-16
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Red Hat
Mozilla: Buffer overflows on Libvpx when decoding WebM video (MFSA 2015-89)↗2015-08-11
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2015-08-11
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Debian
CVE-2015-4486: libvpx - The decrease_ref_count function in libvpx in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Fir...↗2015
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-4485 CVE-2015-4486 Mozilla: Buffer overflows on Libvpx when decoding WebM video (MFSA 2015-89)↗2015-08-11
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CVE-2015-4486 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase