CVE-2015-2728 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-2728?

CVE-2015-2728 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 6 Jul 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 IndexedDatabaseManager class in the IndexedDB implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0 and Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.8 and 38.x before 38.1 misinterprets an unspecified IDBDatabase field as a pointer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via unspecified vectors, related to a "type confusion" issue.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-2728?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox Esr, Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server, Oracle Solaris.

How do I fix CVE-2015-2728?

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-2015-2728 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2728 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-r8g9-x5r3-7rc6, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2728.