CVE-2015-7194

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-11-04
Bugzilla:
1277347: CVE-2015-7194 Mozilla: Memory corruption in libjar through zip files (MFSA 2015-128)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Buffer underflow in libjar in Mozilla Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted ZIP archive.

Find out more about CVE-2015-7194 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-2015:1982 2015-11-04
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2015:1982 2015-11-04
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2015:1982 2015-11-04

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 thunderbird Not affected
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 Gustavo Grieco as the original reporter.

External References

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