CVE-2015-4506
published 2015-09-24CVE-2015-4506: Buffer overflow in the vp9_init_context_buffers function in libvpx, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3, allows remote…
PriorityP336medium6.8CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCPIPAP
EPSS
4.92%
91.2th percentile
Buffer overflow in the vp9_init_context_buffers function in libvpx, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted VP9 file.
Affected
16 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | libvpx | < libvpx 1.4.0-4 (bookworm) | libvpx 1.4.0-4 (bookworm) |
| mozilla | firefox | <= 40.0.3 | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 41.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | 41.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 41.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | 41.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
| mozilla | thunderbird | >= 0 < 1:38.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | 1:38.3.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
| webmproject | libvpx | >= 0 < 1.4.0-4 | 1.4.0-4 |
| webmproject | libvpx | >= 0 < 1.4.0-4 | 1.4.0-4 |
| webmproject | libvpx | >= 0 < 1.4.0-4 | 1.4.0-4 |
| webmproject | libvpx | >= 0 < 1.4.0-4 | 1.4.0-4 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
osv7.5HIGH
vendor_ubuntu7.5HIGH
vendor_debian6.8LOW
vendor_redhat6.8MEDIUM
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GHSA
GHSA-pwqf-hfj5-2rrc: Buffer overflow in the vp9_init_context_buffers function in libvpx, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 41
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-17
CVE-2015-4506 [MEDIUM] CWE-119 GHSA-pwqf-hfj5-2rrc: Buffer overflow in the vp9_init_context_buffers function in libvpx, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 41
Buffer overflow in the vp9_init_context_buffers function in libvpx, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted VP9 file.
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities
osv·2015-10-05·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-4500 [HIGH] thunderbird vulnerabilities
thunderbird vulnerabilities
Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David
Major, Andrew McCreight, and Cameron McCormack discovered multiple memory
safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a
specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to
cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4500)
Khalil Zhani discovered a buffer overflow when parsing VP9 content in some
circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
message, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of
service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2
OSV
firefox regression
osv·2015-10-05·CVSS 7.5
[HIGH] firefox regression
firefox regression
USN-2743-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. After upgrading, some users
reported problems with bookmark creation and crashes in some
circumstances. This update fixes the problem.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David
Major, Andrew McCreight, Cameron McCormack, Bob Clary and Randell Jesup
discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2015-4500, CVE-2015-4501)
André Bargull discovered that when a web page creates a scripted pro
OSV
unity-firefox-extension, webapps-greasemonkey, webaccounts-browser-extension update
osv·2015-09-24·CVSS 7.5
[HIGH] unity-firefox-extension, webapps-greasemonkey, webaccounts-browser-extension update
unity-firefox-extension, webapps-greasemonkey, webaccounts-browser-extension update
USN-2743-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. Future Firefox updates will
require all addons be signed and unity-firefox-extension, webapps-greasemonkey
and webaccounts-browser-extension will not go through the signing process.
Because these addons currently break search engine installations (LP:
#1069793), this update permanently disables the addons by removing them from
the system.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David
Major, Andrew McCreight, Cameron McCormack, Bob Clary and Randell Jesup
discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, a
OSV
CVE-2015-4506: Buffer overflow in the vp9_init_context_buffers function in libvpx, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 41
osv·2015-09-24·CVSS 6.8
CVE-2015-4506 [MEDIUM] CVE-2015-4506: Buffer overflow in the vp9_init_context_buffers function in libvpx, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 41
Buffer overflow in the vp9_init_context_buffers function in libvpx, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted VP9 file.
OSV
ubufox update
osv·2015-09-22·CVSS 7.5
[HIGH] ubufox update
ubufox update
USN-2743-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the
corresponding update for Ubufox.
Original advisory details:
Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David
Major, Andrew McCreight, Cameron McCormack, Bob Clary and Randell Jesup
discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2015-4500, CVE-2015-4501)
André Bargull discovered that when a web page creates a scripted proxy
for the window with a handler defined a certain way, a reference to the
inner window will be passed, rather than tha
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities
osv·2015-09-22·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-4500 [HIGH] firefox vulnerabilities
firefox vulnerabilities
Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David
Major, Andrew McCreight, Cameron McCormack, Bob Clary and Randell Jesup
discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2015-4500, CVE-2015-4501)
André Bargull discovered that when a web page creates a scripted proxy
for the window with a handler defined a certain way, a reference to the
inner window will be passed, rather than that of the outer window.
(CVE-2015-4502)
Felix Gröbert discovered an out-of-bounds read in the QCMS color
management librar
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2015-10-05·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-4500 [HIGH] Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Title: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.
Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David
Major, Andrew McCreight, and Cameron McCormack discovered multiple memory
safety issues in Thunderbird. If a user were tricked in to opening a
specially crafted message, an attacker could potentially exploit these to
cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code
with the privileges of the user invoking Thunderbird. (CVE-2015-4500)
Khalil Zhani discovered a buffer overflow when parsing VP9 content in some
circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
message, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of
service via application crash, or execute arbitra
Ubuntu
Firefox regression
vendor_ubuntu·2015-10-05·CVSS 7.5
[HIGH] Firefox regression
Title: Firefox regression
Summary: USN-2743-1 introduced a regression in Firefox.
USN-2743-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. After upgrading, some users
reported problems with bookmark creation and crashes in some
circumstances. This update fixes the problem.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David
Major, Andrew McCreight, Cameron McCormack, Bob Clary and Randell Jesup
discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2015-4500, CVE-2015-4501)
Andr
Ubuntu
Unity Integration for Firefox, Unity Websites Integration and Ubuntu Online Accounts extension update
vendor_ubuntu·2015-09-24·CVSS 7.5
[HIGH] Unity Integration for Firefox, Unity Websites Integration and Ubuntu Online Accounts extension update
Title: Unity Integration for Firefox, Unity Websites Integration and Ubuntu Online Accounts extension update
Summary: This update provides compatible packages for Firefox 41
USN-2743-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. Future Firefox updates will
require all addons be signed and unity-firefox-extension, webapps-greasemonkey
and webaccounts-browser-extension will not go through the signing process.
Because these addons currently break search engine installations (LP:
#1069793), this update permanently disables the addons by removing them from
the system.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David
Major, Andrew McCreight, Cameron McCormack, Bob Clary and Randell Jesup
discovered multiple memory sa
Red Hat
Mozilla: Buffer overflow in libvpx while parsing vp9 format video (MFSA 2015-101)
vendor_redhat·2015-09-22·CVSS 6.8
CVE-2015-4506 [MEDIUM] CWE-120 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in libvpx while parsing vp9 format video (MFSA 2015-101)
Mozilla: Buffer overflow in libvpx while parsing vp9 format video (MFSA 2015-101)
Buffer overflow in the vp9_init_context_buffers function in libvpx, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted VP9 file.
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) - Not affected
Ubuntu
Ubufox update
vendor_ubuntu·2015-09-22·CVSS 7.5
[HIGH] Ubufox update
Title: Ubufox update
Summary: This update provides compatible packages for Firefox 41
USN-2743-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. This update provides the
corresponding update for Ubufox.
Original advisory details:
Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David
Major, Andrew McCreight, Cameron McCormack, Bob Clary and Randell Jesup
discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2015-4500, CVE-2015-4501)
André Bargull discovered that when a web page creates a scripted proxy
for the window with a handler defined a cer
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2015-09-22·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-4500 [HIGH] Firefox vulnerabilities
Title: Firefox vulnerabilities
Summary: Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a malicious website.
Andrew Osmond, Olli Pettay, Andrew Sutherland, Christian Holler, David
Major, Andrew McCreight, Cameron McCormack, Bob Clary and Randell Jesup
discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2015-4500, CVE-2015-4501)
André Bargull discovered that when a web page creates a scripted proxy
for the window with a handler defined a certain way, a reference to the
inner window will be passed, rather than that of the o
Debian
CVE-2015-4506: libvpx - Buffer overflow in the vp9_init_context_buffers function in libvpx, as used in M...
vendor_debian·2015·CVSS 6.8
CVE-2015-4506 [MEDIUM] CVE-2015-4506: libvpx - Buffer overflow in the vp9_init_context_buffers function in libvpx, as used in M...
Buffer overflow in the vp9_init_context_buffers function in libvpx, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted VP9 file.
Scope: local
bookworm: resolved (fixed in 1.4.0-4)
bullseye: resolved (fixed in 1.4.0-4)
forky: resolved (fixed in 1.4.0-4)
sid: resolved (fixed in 1.4.0-4)
trixie: resolved (fixed in 1.4.0-4)
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
arXiv
Retrofitting Fine Grain Isolation in the Firefox Renderer (Extended Version)
arxiv_fulltext·2020-03-10
Retrofitting Fine Grain Isolation in the Firefox Renderer (Extended Version)
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Retrofitting Fine Grain Isolation in the Firefox Renderer\ Version -1em
Retrofitting Fine Grain Isolation in the Firefox Renderer-1.2em
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Shravan Narayan
Craig Disselkoen
Tal Garfinkel
Nathan Froyd
Eric Rahm
Sorin Lerner
Hovav Shacham^ ,
Deian Stefan
UC San Diego
Stanford
Mozilla
UT Austin
## Abstract
and other major browsers rely on dozens of third-party libraries to
render audio, video, images, and other content. These libraries are a
frequent source of vulnerabilities. To mitigate this threat, we
are migrating to an architecture that isolates these libraries in
lightweight sandboxes, dramatically reducing the impact of a compromise.
Retrofitting isolation can be labor-intensive, very prone to security bugs, and
requires critical attention to performance. To hel
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-4506 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in libvpx while parsing vp9 format video (MFSA 2015-101)
bugzilla·2015-09-23·CVSS 6.8
CVE-2015-4506 [MEDIUM] CVE-2015-4506 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in libvpx while parsing vp9 format video (MFSA 2015-101)
CVE-2015-4506 Mozilla: Buffer overflow in libvpx while parsing vp9 format video (MFSA 2015-101)
Security researcher Khalil Zhani reported that a maliciously crafted vp9
format video could be used to trigger a buffer overflow while parsing the
file. This leads to a potentially exploitable crash due to a flaw in the
libvpx library.
Reference:
-> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1192226
-> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4506
Discussion:
External References:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-101/
Acknowledgements:
Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Khalil Zhani as the original reporter.
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This issue has been addressed in the following products:
Red Hat Enterpris
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00000.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00003.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00004.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00005.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00007.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1834.htmlhttp://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3365http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-101.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76816http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033640http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2743-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2743-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2743-3http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2743-4http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2754-1https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1192226http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00000.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00003.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00004.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00005.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00007.htmlhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.htmlhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1834.htmlhttp://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3365http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-101.htmlhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76816http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033640http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2743-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2743-2http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2743-3http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2743-4http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2754-1https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1192226
2015-09-24
Published