CVE-2015-0806

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-04-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-17

Description

The Off Main Thread Compositing (OMTC) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 attempts to use memset for a memory region of negative length during interaction with the mozilla::layers::BufferTextureClient::AllocateForSurface function, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via vectors that trigger rendering of 2D graphics content.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
Mozilla Firefox: through 36.0.4
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00003.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-38.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031996
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2550-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1099437
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00003.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-38.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031996
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2550-1

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