CVE-2015-4492

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the XMLHttpRequest::Open implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a SharedWorker object that makes recursive calls to the open method of an XMLHttpRequest object.

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.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3333

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-92.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76297

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033247

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-1

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2702-3

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1185820

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201605-06

Details

Risk Information

CVSS v2