CVE-2015-0817 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-0817?

CVE-2015-0817 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 24 Mar 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

The asm.js implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 36.0.3, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.5.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.33.1 does not properly determine the cases in which bounds checking may be safely skipped during JIT compilation and heap access, which allows remote attackers to read or write to unintended memory locations, and consequently execute arbitrary code, via crafted JavaScript.

Weakness: CWE-17

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-0817?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox Esr, Mozilla Seamonkey.

How do I fix CVE-2015-0817?

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-2015-0817 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-0817 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Mozilla Firefox

• CVE-2019-11708 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Sandbox Escape Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2010-3765 Mozilla Multiple Products Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-26486 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2022-26485 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11707 Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8

All Mozilla Firefox vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4rw7-7wpq-7g64, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0817.