CVE-2015-2710

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-2710  

Heap-based buffer overflow in the SVGTextFrame class 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 via crafted SVG graphics data in conjunction with a crafted Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequence.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Heap-based buffer overflow in the SVGTextFrame class 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 via crafted SVG graphics data in conjunction with a crafted Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequence.

Find out more about CVE-2015-2710 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:1012 2015-05-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:1012 2015-05-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0988 2015-05-12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:1012 2015-05-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0988 2015-05-12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:1012 2015-05-18
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0988 2015-05-12

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Atte Kettunen as the original reporter.

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