CVE-2015-7176 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-7176?

CVE-2015-7176 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 24 Sep 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 AnimationThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 uses an incorrect argument to the sscanf function, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7176?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Mozilla Firefox.

How do I fix CVE-2015-7176?

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-2015-7176 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-7176 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• 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-3pgh-f8f3-268r, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7176.