CVE-2015-7174

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-7174  

The nsAttrAndChildArray::GrowBy function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors, related to an "overflow."

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The nsAttrAndChildArray::GrowBy function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors, related to an "overflow."

Find out more about CVE-2015-7174 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 Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:1852 2015-10-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:1852 2015-10-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:1852 2015-10-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:1852 2015-10-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2015:1834 2015-09-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2015:1834 2015-09-22
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2015:1834 2015-09-22

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Ronald Crane as the original reporter.

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