CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-7176

7.5 HIGH Published 2015-09-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-09-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-119

Description

The AnimationThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 uses an incorrect argument to the sscanf function, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox 38.0 • mozilla firefox 38.0.1 • mozilla firefox 38.0.5 • mozilla firefox 38.1.0 • mozilla firefox 38.1.1 • mozilla firefox 38.2.0 • mozilla firefox 38.2.1 • mozilla firefox (<= 40.0.3)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness

References