CVE-2015-4489

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-4489  

The nsTArray_Impl class in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2, and Firefox OS before 2.2 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging a self assignment.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The nsTArray_Impl class in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2, and Firefox OS before 2.2 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging a self assignment.

Find out more about CVE-2015-4489 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5.1
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
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 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:1682 2015-08-25
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:1682 2015-08-25
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:1682 2015-08-25
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2015:1586 2015-08-11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2015:1586 2015-08-11
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:1682 2015-08-25
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2015:1586 2015-08-11

Acknowledgements

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

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