CVE-2015-7182 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
11.0%
top 6.54%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedNov 5
Latest updateMay 17
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the ASN.1 decoder 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 cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted OCTET STRING data.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages8 packages
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
4📋Vendor Advisories
5💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2015-7182 nss: ASN.1 decoder heap overflow when decoding constructed OCTET STRING that mixes indefinite and definite length encodings (MFSA 2015-133)↗2015-10-07