CVE-2015-7221 — 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
10.0CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.5%
top 18.93%
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

Buffer overflow in the nsDeque::GrowCapacity function in xpcom/glue/nsDeque.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a deque size change.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 10.0

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

Patches

Patch: hg.mozilla.org ↗Patch: hg.mozilla.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-m4xx-wmfj-35cv: Buffer overflow in the nsDeque::GrowCapacity function in xpcom/glue/nsDeque↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2015-7221: Buffer overflow in the nsDeque::GrowCapacity function in xpcom/glue/nsDeque↗2015-12-15
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2015-12-15
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
Mozilla: Buffer overflows found through code inspection (MFSA 2015-144)↗2015-12-16
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2015-12-15
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-7203 CVE-2015-7220 CVE-2015-7221 Mozilla: Buffer overflows found through code inspection (MFSA 2015-144)↗2015-12-15
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CVE-2015-7221 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase