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Unscored USN-2723-1 2 CVEs

firefox vulnerabilities

Published Aug 27, 2015 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

A use-after-free was discovered when resizing a canvas element during
restyling 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-2015-4497)

Bas Venis discovered that the addon install permission prompt could be
bypassed using data: URLs in some circumstances. It was also discovered
that the installation notification could be made to appear over another
site. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an
attacker could potentially exploit this to install a malicious addon.
(CVE-2015-4498)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS firefox 40.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Unscored —

    Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanvasRenderingContext2D implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0.3 and Firefo…

  • Unscored —

    The add-on installation feature in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0.3 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2.1 allows remote attac…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4497
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-4498