CVE-2015-0797

medium

Published 2015-05-14 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.8

Description

GStreamer before 1.4.5, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.7, and Thunderbird before 31.7 on Linux, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted H.264 video data in an m4v file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
9.0	Affected	—
8.0	Affected	—
7.0	Affected	—

Red Hat Affected 11 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
7.7	Affected	—
7.6	Affected	—
7.5	Affected	—
7.4	Affected	—
7.3	Affected	—
7.2	Affected	—
7.1	Affected	—
7.0	Affected	—
6.6	Affected	—
6.0	Affected	—
5.0	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
11	Affected	—

Linux kernel Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
-	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
gstreamer	gstreamer	`{"endExcluding":"1.4.5"}`	`1.4.5`
mozilla	firefox	`{"endExcluding":"38.0"}`	`38.0`
mozilla	seamonkey	`{"endExcluding":"2.35"}`	`2.35`
mozilla	thunderbird	`{"endExcluding":"31.7"}`	`31.7`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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