CVE-2015-4475

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-08-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The mozilla::AudioSink function in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 mishandles inconsistent sample formats within MP3 audio data, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via a malformed file.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.04
Mozilla Firefox: through 39.0.3; 38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5, 38.1.0
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00016.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1586.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-80.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76294
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247

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