Mozilla Firefox 42 memory corruption

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Mozilla Firefox 42 (Web Browser). This vulnerability affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was shared 12/15/2015 by Andrei Vaida, Jesse Ruderman and Bob Clary (Inferno) with Google Chrome Security Team as MFSA2015-134 as confirmed security advisory (Website). The advisory is shared for download at mozilla.org. This vulnerability was named CVE-2015-7201 since 09/16/2015. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The advisory points out:

Mozilla developers and community identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 87425 (CentOS 5 / 6 / 7 : firefox (CESA-2015:2657)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 157094 (Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for thunderbird (ELSA-2016-0001)).

Upgrading to version 43 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (87425), SecurityFocus (BID 79279†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-55287†). The entries VDB-79805, VDB-79809, VDB-79818 and VDB-79819 are related to this item. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Nessus ID: 87425
Nessus Name: CentOS 5 / 6 / 7 : firefox (CESA-2015:2657)
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OpenVAS ID: 703422
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 3422-1 (iceweasel - security update)
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Upgrade: Firefox 43

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: mozilla.org
Product: mozilla.org

Advisory: MFSA2015-134
Researcher: Andrei Vaida, Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary (Inferno)
Organization: Google Chrome Security Team
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2015-7201 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-7201
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-79804

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SecurityFocus: 79279 - Mozilla Firefox Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
SecurityTracker: 1034426
Vulnerability Center: 55287 - Mozilla Firefox <43 and Firefox ESR <38.5 Remote Code Execution due to Memory Safety Issue - CVE-2015-7201, Critical

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Entryinfo

Created: 12/16/2015 11:14 AM
Updated: 10/23/2024 01:14 AM
Changes: 12/16/2015 11:14 AM (69), 05/15/2018 09:05 AM (13), 07/01/2022 08:28 AM (4), 10/23/2024 01:14 AM (15)
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