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Unscored USN-2833-1 21 CVEs

firefox vulnerabilities

Published Dec 15, 2015 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Andrei Vaida, Jesse Ruderman, Bob Clary, Christian Holler, Jesse Ruderman,
Eric Rahm, Robert Kaiser, Harald Kirschner, and Michael Henretty
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-2015-7201, CVE-2015-7202)

Ronald Crane discovered three buffer overflows through code inspection.
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-2015-7203, CVE-2015-7220, CVE-2015-7221)

Cajus Pollmeier discovered a crash during javascript variable assignments
in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially
crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox.
(CVE-2015-7204)

Ronald Crane discovered a buffer overflow through code inspection. 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-2015-7205)

It was discovered that it is possible to read cross-origin URLs following
a redirect if performance.getEntries() is used with an iframe to host a
page. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an
attacker could potentially exploit this to bypass same-origin
restrictions. (CVE-2015-7207)

It was discovered that Firefox allows for control characters to be set in
cookies. An attacker could potentially exploit this to conduct cookie
injection attacks on some web servers. (CVE-2015-7208)

Looben Yang discovered a use-after-free in WebRTC when closing channels 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-2015-7210)

Abdulrahman Alqabandi discovered that hash symbol is incorrectly handled
when parsing data: URLs. An attacker could potentially exploit this to
conduct URL spoofing attacks. (CVE-2015-7211)

Abhishek Arya discovered an integer overflow when allocating large
textures. 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-2015-7212)

Ronald Crane dicovered an integer overflow when processing MP4 format
video 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-2015-7213)

Tsubasa Iinuma discovered a way to bypass same-origin restrictions using
data: and view-source: URLs. If a user were tricked in to opening a
specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to
obtain sensitive information and read local files. (CVE-2015-7214)

Masato Kinugawa discovered a cross-origin information leak in error events
in web workers. An attacker could potentially exploit this to obtain
sensitive information. (CVE-2015-7215)

Gustavo Grieco discovered that the file chooser crashed on malformed
images due to flaws in the Jasper library. If a user were tricked in to
opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially
exploit this to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2015-7216, CVE-2015-7217)

Stuart Larsen discoverd two integer underflows when handling malformed
HTTP/2 frames in some circumstances. 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. (CVE-2015-7218,
CVE-2015-7219)

Gerald Squelart discovered an integer underflow in the libstagefright
library when parsing MP4 format video 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-2015-7222)

Kris Maglione discovered a mechanism where web content could use
WebExtension APIs to execute code with the privileges of a particular
WebExtension. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted
website with a vulnerable extension installed, an attacker could
potentially exploit this to obtain sensitive information or conduct
cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks. (CVE-2015-7223)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS firefox 43.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

Vulnerabilities 21

  • Unscored —

    Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 3…

  • Unscored —

    Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 allow remote attackers to cau…

  • Unscored —

    Buffer overflow in the DirectWriteFontInfo::LoadFontFamilyData function in gfx/thebes/gfxDWriteFontList.cpp in Mozilla …

  • Unscored —

    Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 does not properly store the properties of unboxed objects, which allows remote attackers to…

  • Unscored —

    Integer underflow in the RTPReceiverVideo::ParseRtpPacket function in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x …

  • Unscored —

    Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 does not properly restrict the availability of IFRAME Resource Timing API times, which allo…

  • Unscored —

    Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 stores cookies containing vertical tab characters, which allows remote attackers to obtain …

  • Unscored —

    Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.5 allows remote attackers to…

  • Unscored —

    Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 mishandles the # (number sign) character in a data: URI, which allows remote attackers to s…

  • Unscored —

    Integer overflow in the mozilla::layers::BufferTextureClient::AllocateForSurface function in Mozilla Firefox before 43.…

  • Unscored —

    Integer overflow in the MPEG4Extractor::readMetaData function in MPEG4Extractor.cpp in libstagefright in Mozilla Firefo…

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2015-7214 Public exploit

    Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.5 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy vi…

  • Unscored —

    The importScripts function in the Web Workers API implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 allows remote attackers…

  • Unscored —

    The gdk-pixbuf configuration in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 on Linux GNOME platforms incorrectly enables the JasPer dec…

  • Unscored —

    The gdk-pixbuf configuration in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 on Linux GNOME platforms incorrectly enables the TGA decode…

  • Unscored —

    The HTTP/2 implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer …

  • Unscored —

    The HTTP/2 implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer …

  • Unscored —

    Buffer overflow in the XDRBuffer::grow function in js/src/vm/Xdr.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 might allow remote …

  • Unscored —

    Buffer overflow in the nsDeque::GrowCapacity function in xpcom/glue/nsDeque.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 might al…

  • Unscored —

    Integer underflow in the Metadata::setData function in MetaData.cpp in libstagefright in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 an…

  • Unscored —

    The WebExtension APIs in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 allow remote attackers to gain privileges, and possibly obtain sen…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7201
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7202
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7203
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7204
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7205
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7207
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7208
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7210
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7211
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7212
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7213
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7214
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7215
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7216
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7217
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7218
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7219
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7220
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7221
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7222
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7223