CVE-2015-2716

high

Published 2015-05-14 · 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

Buffer overflow in the XML parser 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 by providing a large amount of compressed XML data, a related issue to CVE-2015-1283.

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	12.0	affected
suse	13.1	affected
suse	13.2	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mozilla	firefox	`{"endIncluding":"37.0.2"}`
novell	suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit	`12.0`
mozilla	thunderbird	`{"endIncluding":"31.5"}`
mozilla	firefox	`31.0`
mozilla	firefox	`31.1.0`
mozilla	firefox	`31.1.1`
mozilla	firefox	`31.3.0`
mozilla	firefox	`31.5.1`
mozilla	firefox	`31.5.2`
mozilla	firefox	`31.5.3`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`31.1`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`31.2`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`31.3`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`31.4`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`31.5`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`31.6.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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