CVE-2015-7176
published 2015-09-24CVE-2015-7176: The AnimationThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 uses an incorrect argument to the sscanf function, which might…
PriorityP336high7.5CVSS 2.0
AVNACLAuNCPIPAP
EPSS
4.35%
90.1th percentile
The AnimationThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 uses an incorrect argument to the sscanf function, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
Affected
11 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv2.07.5HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
osv7.5HIGH
vendor_redhat7.5HIGH
vendor_ubuntu7.5HIGH
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GHSA
GHSA-3pgh-f8f3-268r: The AnimationThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 41
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-17
CVE-2015-7176 [HIGH] CWE-119 GHSA-3pgh-f8f3-268r: The AnimationThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 41
The AnimationThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 uses an incorrect argument to the sscanf function, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
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-2015-7176: The AnimationThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 41
osv·2015-09-22·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-7176 [HIGH] CVE-2015-7176: The AnimationThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 41
The AnimationThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 uses an incorrect argument to the sscanf function, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
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
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
Red Hat
Mozilla: Vulnerabilities found through code inspection (MFSA 2015-112)
vendor_redhat·2015-09-22·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-7176 [HIGH] CWE-250 Mozilla: Vulnerabilities found through code inspection (MFSA 2015-112)
Mozilla: Vulnerabilities found through code inspection (MFSA 2015-112)
The AnimationThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 uses an incorrect argument to the sscanf function, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
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2015-09-24
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