CVE-2015-4503

The TCP Socket API implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 mishandles array boundaries that were established with a navigator.mozTCPSocket.open method call and send method calls, which allows remote TCP servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory by reading packet data, as demonstrated by availability of this API in a Firefox OS application.

Score

CVSS 2.0 5.0 Medium

Status

Modified - security@mozilla.org

Published

2015-09-24

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-200

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00005.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-97.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76815
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033640
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=994337