CVE-2015-7210

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-7210  

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering attempted use of a data channel that has been closed by a WebRTC function.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by triggering attempted use of a data channel that has been closed by a WebRTC function.

Find out more about CVE-2015-7210 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 (firefox) RHSA-2015:2657 2015-12-16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2015:2657 2015-12-16
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2015:2657 2015-12-16

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 thunderbird Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 thunderbird Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 thunderbird Not affected

Acknowledgements

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

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