CVE-2015-0797

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-05-12
CWE:
CWE-119
Bugzilla:
1220600: CVE-2015-0797 Mozilla: Buffer overflow parsing H.264 video with Linux Gstreamer (MFSA 2015-47)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

GStreamer before 1.4.5, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.7, and Thunderbird before 31.7 on Linux, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted H.264 video data in an m4v file.

Find out more about CVE-2015-0797 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 5.1
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0988 2015-05-12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0988 2015-05-12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2015:0988 2015-05-12

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 thunderbird Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 thunderbird Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Aki Helin as the original reporter.

External References

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