CVE-2015-4482

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% 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

mar_read.c in the Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write) via a crafted name of a Mozilla Archive (aka MAR) file.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 39.0.3; 38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5, 38.1.0
Opensuse: 13.1, 13.2
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.3

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-updates/2015-08/msg00030.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-08/msg00031.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-85.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76294
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033372
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1184500
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html

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