CVE-2015-0797 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-0797?

CVE-2015-0797 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 14 May 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

GStreamer before 1.4.5, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.7, and Thunderbird before 31.7 on Linux, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted H.264 video data in an m4v file.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0797?

It affects 14 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Gstreamer Gstreamer, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Thunderbird, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop and 8 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-0797?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-0797 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0797 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DSA-3225-1, GHSA-wvj4-9m85-jjv9, MGASA-2015-0188, SUSE-SU-2015:0921-1, SUSE-SU-2015:0942-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0797 and 1 more.