CVE-2015-7196 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability

CWE-177 documents6 sources
Severity
6.8MEDIUMNVD
OSV7.5
EPSS
2.4%
top 14.80%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Mozilla Firefox
Timeline
PublishedNov 5
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4, when a Java plugin is enabled, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (incorrect garbage collection and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Java applet that deallocates an in-use JavaScript wrapper.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages2 packages

▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 42.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
▶NVDmozilla/firefox41.0.2+8

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-m7pc-jrgg-qm66: Mozilla Firefox before 42↗2022-05-17
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2015-11-04
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OSV
CVE-2015-7196: Mozilla Firefox before 42↗2015-11-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2015-11-04
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Red Hat
Mozilla: JavaScript garbage collection crash with Java applet (MFSA 2015-130)↗2015-11-04
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-7196 Mozilla: JavaScript garbage collection crash with Java applet (MFSA 2015-130)↗2015-11-03
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