CVE-2015-2713

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-2713  

Use-after-free vulnerability in the SetBreaks function 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 or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a document containing crafted text in conjunction with a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequence containing properties related to vertical text.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Use-after-free vulnerability in the SetBreaks function 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 or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a document containing crafted text in conjunction with a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequence containing properties related to vertical text.

Find out more about CVE-2015-2713 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 Scott Bell as the original reporter.

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