CVE-2015-7183 Integer overflow in n/a

What is CVE-2015-7183?

CVE-2015-7183 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, published on 5 Nov 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

Integer overflow in the PL_ARENA_ALLOCATE implementation in Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) 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 execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-189, CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7183?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Network Security Services.

How do I fix CVE-2015-7183?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2015-7183 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-7183 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 DEBIAN-CVE-2015-7183, DLA-344-1, DSA-3406-1, GHSA-v8r8-vg3r-9r36, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7183, USN-2790-1.