CVE-2015-4497 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2015-4497

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanvasRenderingContext2D implementation in Mozilla Firefox before...

Vulnerability Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanvasRenderingContext2D implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0.3 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging improper interaction between resize events and changes to Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences for a CANVAS element.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

firefox
Vulnerable Versions:
38.0, 38.0.1, 38.0.5, 38.1.0, 38.2.0, 40.0.2

Timeline

Official Publish: August 29th, 2015
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.