Vulnerability CVE-2015-0805
Published: 2015-04-01

Description:
The Off Main Thread Compositing (OMTC) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 makes an incorrect memset call during interaction with the mozilla::layers::BufferTextureClient::AllocateForSurface function, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via vectors that trigger rendering of 2D graphics content.

Type:

CWE-17

 (Code)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Mozilla -> Firefox 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00003.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-38.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031996
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2550-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1135511
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10
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