CVE-2015-2713 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2015-2713?

CVE-2015-2713 is a medium-severity use after free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, 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

Use-after-free vulnerability in the SetBreaks function in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.7, and Thunderbird before 31.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a document containing crafted text in conjunction with a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequence containing properties related to vertical text.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-2713?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox Esr, Mozilla Thunderbird, Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server, Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-2713?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2015-2713 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2713 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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-m69x-6q22-9gfc, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2713.