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Unscored USN-2602-1 10 CVEs

firefox vulnerabilities

Published May 13, 2015 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Byron Campen, Steve Fink, Gary Kwong,
Andrew McCreight, Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, and Milan Sreckovic
discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2015-2708, CVE-2015-2709)

Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow during the rendering of SVG
content with certain CSS properties in some circumstances. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application
crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking
Firefox. (CVE-2015-2710)

Alex Verstak discovered that <meta name="referrer"> is ignored in some
circumstances. (CVE-2015-2711)

Dougall Johnson discovered an out of bounds read and write in asm.js. If
a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an
attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information,
cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary
code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-2712)

Scott Bell discovered a use-afer-free during the processing of text when
vertical text is enabled. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially
crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a
denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with
the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-2713)

Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber discovered a use-after-free during
shutdown. An attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of
service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the
privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-2715)

Ucha Gobejishvili discovered a buffer overflow when parsing compressed XML
content. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website,
an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service
via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2015-2716)

A buffer overflow and out-of-bounds read were discovered when parsing
metadata in MP4 files in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit
this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2015-2717)

Mark Hammond discovered that when a trusted page is hosted within an
iframe in an untrusted page, the untrusted page can intercept webchannel
responses meant for the trusted page in some circumstances. If a user
were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
exploit this to bypass origin restrictions. (CVE-2015-2718)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS firefox 38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Vulnerabilities 10

  • Unscored —

    Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.7…

  • Unscored —

    Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 allow remote attackers to cau…

  • Unscored —

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the SVGTextFrame class in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.7, and …

  • Unscored —

    Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 does not recognize a referrer policy delivered by a referrer META element in cases of conte…

  • Unscored —

    The asm.js implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 does not properly determine heap lengths during identification…

  • Unscored —

    Use-after-free vulnerability in the SetBreaks function in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.7, an…

  • Unscored —

    Race condition in the nsThreadManager::RegisterCurrentThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 allows remote atta…

  • Unscored —

    Buffer overflow in the XML parser in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.7, and Thunderbird before …

  • Unscored —

    Integer overflow in libstagefright in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or …

  • Unscored —

    The WebChannel.jsm module in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and o…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2708
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2709
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2710
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2711
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2712
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2713
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2715
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2716
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2717
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2718