CVE-2015-0816
A flaw was found in the way documents were loaded via resource URLs in, for example, Mozilla's PDF.js PDF file viewer. An attacker could use this flaw to bypass certain restrictions and under certain conditions even execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.
Find out more about CVE-2015-0816 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 5 (firefox) | RHSA-2015:0766 | 2015-04-01 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) | RHSA-2015:0771 | 2015-04-01 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) | RHSA-2015:0766 | 2015-04-01 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (thunderbird) | RHSA-2015:0771 | 2015-04-01 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) | RHSA-2015:0771 | 2015-04-01 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) | RHSA-2015:0766 | 2015-04-01 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) | RHSA-2015:0771 | 2015-04-01 |