CVE-2015-7176

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2015-09-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The AnimationThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 uses an incorrect argument to the sscanf function, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 40.0.3; 38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5, 38.1.0, 38.1.1, 38.2.0 (+1)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00007.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-11/msg00025.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1834.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1852.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3365
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-112.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinoct2015-2719645.html

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