CVE-2015-2716

Mozilla Firefox < 38.0 and Firefox ESR 31.x < 31.7 - Remote Code Execution via XML Parser Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (20)

Core 20
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2602-1
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0988.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74611
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3264
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3260
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00036.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2603-1
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00054.html
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1012.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1140537
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-20

Scores

EPSS 0.0561
EPSS Percentile 90.4%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (21)
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 < 37.0.2
mozilla/firefox_esr 31.1
mozilla/firefox_esr 31.2
... and 11 more
Published May 14, 2015
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026