CVE-2015-7199

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-7199  

The (1) AddWeightedPathSegLists and (2) SVGPathSegListSMILType::Interpolate functions in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 lack status checking, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted SVG document.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The (1) AddWeightedPathSegLists and (2) SVGPathSegListSMILType::Interpolate functions in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 lack status checking, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted SVG document.

Find out more about CVE-2015-7199 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-2015:2519 2015-11-26
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2015:1982 2015-11-04
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:2519 2015-11-26
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:2519 2015-11-26
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (thunderbird) RHSA-2015:2519 2015-11-26
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2015:1982 2015-11-04
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2015:1982 2015-11-04

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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