CVE-2015-7217 — 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 Buffer7 documents6 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
OSV10.0
EPSS
1.3%
top 20.20%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Mozilla FirefoxFedoraproject FedoraOpensuse Leap+1 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 16
Latest updateMay 14

Description

The gdk-pixbuf configuration in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 on Linux GNOME platforms incorrectly enables the TGA decoder, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) via a crafted Truevision TGA image.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 43.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
▶NVDmozilla/firefox42.0
▶NVDopensuse/leap42.1
▶NVDopensuse/opensuse13.1, 13.2+1

Also affects: Fedora 22, 23

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-h7jv-gvww-75p5: The gdk-pixbuf configuration in Mozilla Firefox before 43↗2022-05-14
▶
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2015-12-15
▶
OSV
CVE-2015-7217: The gdk-pixbuf configuration in Mozilla Firefox before 43↗2015-12-15
▶

📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
Mozilla: Linux file chooser crashes on malformed JPEG2000 and TGA images due to flaws in underlying libraries (MFSA 2015-143)↗2015-12-16
▶
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2015-12-15
▶

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-7216 CVE-2015-7217 Mozilla: Linux file chooser crashes on malformed JPEG2000 and TGA images due to flaws in underlying libraries (MFSA 2015-143)↗2015-12-15
▶
CVE-2015-7217 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase