CVE-2015-4489

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.0% 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 nsTArray_Impl class in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0, Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2, and Firefox OS before 2.2 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging a self assignment.

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
Mozilla Firefox Os: through 2.1.0
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-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://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1682.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3333
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3410
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-90.html

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