CVE-2015-4503

Firefox < 40.0.3 - Information Disclosure via TCP Socket API

Title source: llm

Description

The TCP Socket API implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 mishandles array boundaries that were established with a navigator.mozTCPSocket.open method call and send method calls, which allows remote TCP servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory by reading packet data, as demonstrated by availability of this API in a Firefox OS application.

References (7)

Core 7

Core References

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00005.html

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-97.html

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76815

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033640

Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=994337

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00000.html

Scores

EPSS 0.0057

EPSS Percentile 69.0%

Details

CWE

CWE-200

Status published

Products (1)

mozilla/firefox < 40.0.3

Published Sep 24, 2015

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026