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CVE-2015-2738

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-07-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-17

Description

The YCbCrImageDataDeserializer::ToDataSourceSurface function in the YCbCr implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.8 and 38.x before 38.1, and Thunderbird before 38.1 reads data from uninitialized memory locations, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 14.10, 15.04
• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• Mozilla Firefox: through 38.1.0; 31.0, 31.1.0, 31.1.1, 31.3.0, 31.5.1, 31.5.2 (+2)
• Mozilla Firefox ESR: 31.1, 31.2, 31.3, 31.4, 31.5, 31.6.0 (+1)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: through 38.0.1
• Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 12
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 11-sp4
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 12
• SUSE Linux Enterprise: 12

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00025.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00033.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00034.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1207.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1455.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3300
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3324
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-66.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html

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