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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-0823 Detail

Description

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in OpenType Sanitiser, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 36.0, might allow remote attackers to trigger problematic Developer Console information or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging incorrect macro expansion, related to the ots::ots_gasp_parse function.


Evaluator Description

CWE-416: Use After Free

Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00000.html CVE, Mozilla Corporation Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html CVE, Mozilla Corporation Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-23.html CVE, Mozilla Corporation Vendor Advisory 
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html CVE, Mozilla Corporation
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72754 CVE, Mozilla Corporation Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031791 CVE, Mozilla Corporation Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2505-1 CVE, Mozilla Corporation Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1098497 CVE, Mozilla Corporation Issue Tracking 
https://github.com/khaledhosny/ots/commit/003c62d28ae438aa8943cb31535563397f838a2c CVE, Mozilla Corporation Issue Tracking  Patch 
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 CVE, Mozilla Corporation

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-0823
NVD Published Date:
02/25/2015
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Mozilla Corporation