CVE-2015-4501

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2015-09-22
Bugzilla:
1266098: CVE-2015-4501 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (MFSA 2015-96)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Find out more about CVE-2015-4501 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 thunderbird Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 thunderbird Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 thunderbird Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 firefox Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting these issues. Upstream acknowledges Bob Clary and Randell Jesup as the original reporters.

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