CVE-2015-4492

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Use-after-free vulnerability in the XMLHttpRequest::Open implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 3

Use-after-free vulnerability in the XMLHttpRequest::Open implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a SharedWorker object that makes recursive calls to the open method of an XMLHttpRequest object.

HIGH · CVSS 7.5 EPSS 0.01947

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CVSS base score ≥ 7.0

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Affected Products & Versions

oracle solarisall versions
mozilla firefox<= 39.0.3
mozilla firefoxall versions
canonical ubuntu linuxall versions
opensuseall versions

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producthighSQLite Firefox Profile Data DB Access

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7.5

HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · security@mozilla.org

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v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published to NVD16 Aug 2015 · 01:59 AM

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Vendor Advisories

suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:1528-1
suse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:1476-1
Show all 9 vendor advisoriessuse-csafSUSE-SU-2015:1449-1
usnUSN-2702-1
rhsaRHSA-2015:1586Critical
mozilla-mfsaMFSA2015-92

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.htmlThird Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.htmlThird Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00016.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html

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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1586.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3333

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-92.htmlVendor Advisory

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlThird Party Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76297

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-1Third Party Advisory

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-2Third Party Advisory

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-3

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185820Issue Tracking

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

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