CVE - CVE-2015-4492

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-4492	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the XMLHttpRequest::Open implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a SharedWorker object that makes recursive calls to the open method of an XMLHttpRequest object.
References
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BID:76297 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76297 CONFIRM:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-92.html CONFIRM:http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185820 DEBIAN:DSA-3333 URL:http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3333 GENTOO:GLSA-201605-06 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06 REDHAT:RHSA-2015:1586 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1586.html SECTRACK:1033247 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247 SUSE:SUSE-SU-2015:1449 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html SUSE:SUSE-SU-2015:1528 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00016.html SUSE:SUSE-SU-2015:2081 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2015:1389 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2015:1390 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2015:1453 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html SUSE:openSUSE-SU-2015:1454 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html UBUNTU:USN-2702-1 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-1 UBUNTU:USN-2702-2 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-2 UBUNTU:USN-2702-3 URL:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-3
Assigning CNA
Mozilla Corporation
Date Record Created
20150610	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20150610)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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