CVE-2015-0805

high

Published 2015-04-01 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

The Off Main Thread Compositing (OMTC) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 makes an incorrect memset call during interaction with the mozilla::layers::BufferTextureClient::AllocateForSurface function, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via vectors that trigger rendering of 2D graphics content.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status
suse	13.1	affected
suse	13.2	affected
ubuntu	12.04	affected
ubuntu	14.04	affected
ubuntu	14.10	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mozilla	firefox	`{"endIncluding":"36.0.4"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-17

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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