CVE-2015-7182 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-7182?

CVE-2015-7182 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 5 Nov 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ASN.1 decoder in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19.2.1 and 3.20.x before 3.20.1, as used in Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted OCTET STRING data.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7182?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Network Security Services, Oracle Glassfish Server, Oracle Iplanet Web Proxy Server, Oracle Iplanet Web Server, Oracle Opensso and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-7182?

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-2015-7182 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-7182 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7182, GHSA-f3ww-87xf-9498, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7182.