CVE-2015-0813

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-0813  

Use-after-free vulnerability in the AppendElements function in Mozilla Firefox before 37.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.6, and Thunderbird before 31.6 on Linux, when the Fluendo MP3 plugin for GStreamer is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a crafted MP3 file.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Use-after-free vulnerability in the AppendElements function in Mozilla Firefox before 37.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.6, and Thunderbird before 31.6 on Linux, when the Fluendo MP3 plugin for GStreamer is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a crafted MP3 file.

Find out more about CVE-2015-0813 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 5 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0766 2015-04-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:0771 2015-04-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0766 2015-04-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:0771 2015-04-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:0771 2015-04-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0766 2015-04-01
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:0771 2015-04-01

Acknowledgements

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

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