CVE-2015-7182

critical
Published 2015-11-05 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the ASN.1 decoder in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19.2.1 and 3.20.x before 3.20.1, as used in Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted OCTET STRING data.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
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 Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2:3.20.1-1
sid Fixed 2:3.20.1-1
forky Fixed 2:3.20.1-1
bullseye Fixed 2:3.20.1-1
bookworm Fixed 2:3.20.1-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
oracle oracletraffic_director11.1.1.7.0
oracle oracletraffic_director11.1.1.9.0
oracle oracleopensso3.0-0.7
oracle oracleiplanet_web_proxy_server4.0
mozilla mozillafirefox38.0
mozilla mozillafirefox38.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox38.0.5
mozilla mozillafirefox38.1.0
mozilla mozillafirefox38.1.1
mozilla mozillafirefox38.2.0
mozilla mozillafirefox38.2.1
mozilla mozillafirefox38.3.0
oracle oracleglassfish_server2.1.1
mozilla mozillanetwork_security_services{"endIncluding":"3.19.2.0"}
mozilla mozillanetwork_security_services3.20.0
oracle oracleiplanet_web_server7.0
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"41.0.2"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.