CVE-2015-0823

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-02-25 · updated 2026-06-17

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 14.10
Mozilla Firefox: through 35.0.1; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+225)
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Opentype Sanitiser Project Opentype Sanitiser: all versions

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-23.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72754
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031791
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2505-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1098497
https://github.com/khaledhosny/ots/commit/003c62d28ae438aa8943cb31535563397f838a2c
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-03/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00067.html

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