CVE-2014-8643

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-01-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 35.0 on Windows allows remote attackers to bypass the Gecko Media Plugin (GMP) sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging access to the GMP process, as demonstrated by the OpenH264 plugin's process.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 34.0.5
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/62253
http://secunia.com/advisories/62446
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2015-07.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72043
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031533
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1117140
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99962
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00002.html

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