The vulnerability of Firefox and Firefox ESR browsers allows attackers to trigger a service failure or increase their privileges.

The vulnerability of the Updater component in Firefox and Firefox ESR browsers is caused by buffer overflow. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker acting locally to cause service failures or increase their privileges using a specially crafted MAR file...

Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities (Aug 2015) - Windows

Mozilla Firefox is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:mozilla:firefox";...

CVE-2015-4482

marread.c in the Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write via a crafted name of a Mozilla Archive aka MAR file...

CVE-2015-4482

marread.c in the Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write via a crafted name of a Mozilla Archive aka MAR file...

Out-of-bounds

marread.c in the Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write via a crafted name of a Mozilla Archive aka MAR file...

CVE-2015-4482

marread.c in the Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write via a crafted name of a Mozilla Archive aka MAR file...

CVE-2015-4482

CVE-2015-4482 affects Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR before 38.2, via the Updater’s MAR file handling. mar_read.c could allow a crafted MAR file name to cause an out-of-bounds write, enabling local privilege gain or a denial of service. In public documents, the remediation typically ...

CVE-2015-4482: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

marread.c in the Updater in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service out-of-bounds write via a crafted name of a Mozilla Archive aka MAR file...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA 2015-79 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:40.0 / rv:38.2 MFSA 2015-80 Out-of-bounds read with malformed MP3 file MFSA 2015-81 Use-after-free in MediaStream playback MFSA 2015-82 Redefinition of non-configurable JavaScript object properties MFSA 2015-83...

Out-of-bounds write with Updater and malicious MAR file — Mozilla

Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek reported that if the Updater opens a MAR format file with a specially crafted name, an out-of-bounds write will occur. This can lead to a potentially exploitable crash but requires that the malicious MAR format file be present on the local system and the...

PT-2015-1897

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 40.0 Firefox ESR versions prior to 38.2 Description The issue is caused by a buffer overflow in the Updater component of the browsers, allowing a local attacker to potentially gain privileges or cause a denial...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Mozilla Project reports: MFSA-2015-46 Miscellaneous memory safety hazards rv:38.0 / rv:31.7 MFSA-2015-47 Buffer overflow parsing H.264 video with Linux Gstreamer MFSA-2015-48 Buffer overflow with SVG content and CSS MFSA-2015-49 Referrer policy ignored when links opened by middle-click and...

Mozilla Windows updater can be run outside of application directory — Mozilla

Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek previously reported CVE-2015-0833, which was fixed in MFSA2015-12. That flaw allowed for the updater to load binary DLL format files from the local working directory or from the Windows temporary directories. During the fixing of CVE-2015-0833, the need to...

MS KB3050995: Improperly Issued Digital Certificates Could Allow Spoofing (deprecated)

The remote host is missing KB3050995, KB2677070 automatic updater, or the latest disallowed certificate update using KB2813430 manual updater. If KB2677070 has been installed, it has not yet obtained the latest auto-updates. Note that this plugin checks that the updaters have actually updated the...

Microsoft Warns Fraudulent Certificate Could Lead to MiTM Attacks

Microsoft has blacklisted a phony SSL certificate that’s been making the rounds and is in the process of warning the general public that the certificate could be leveraged to stage man-in-the-middle attacks. In a security advisory published yesterday the company stressed that an improper...

Firefox 36 Arrives With Patches For Three Critical Flaws

Mozilla has patched 16 security vulnerabilities in Firefox, including three critical flaws in the browser. One of the critical vulnerabilities patched with the release of Firefox 36 is a buffer overflow in the libstagefright library that can be exploitable under some circumstances. “Security...

Firefox < 36 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of Firefox installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 36.0. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An issue exists that allows whitelisted Mozilla domains to make 'UITour' API calls while UI Tour pages are present in background tabs. This allows an...

Mozilla Thunderbird < 31.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The version of Thunderbird installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 31.5. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - An information disclosure vulnerability exists related to the autocomplete feature that allows an attacker to read arbitrary files. CVE-2015-0822 - An...

OpenJDK: AtomicReferenceFieldUpdater missing primitive type check (Libraries, 8039520)

Unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Java SE 5.0u65, 6u75, 7u60, and 8u5 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Libraries...

Invoking Mozilla updater will load locally stored DLL files — Mozilla

Security researcher Holger Fuhrmannek reported that when the Mozilla updater is run directly, the updater will load binary DLL format files from the local working directory or from the Windows temporary directories. This occurs when it is run without the Mozilla Maintenance Service on Windows...