CVE-2015-2713
Mozilla: Use-after-free during text processing with vertical text enabled (MFSA 2015-51)
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20Public Exploits
0Exploited in Wild
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Descriptions
Use-after-free vulnerability in the SetBreaks function in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.7, and Thunderbird before 31.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via a document containing crafted text in conjunction with a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequence containing properties related to vertical text.
Vulnerabilidad de uso después de liberación en la función SetBreaks en Mozilla Firefox anterior a 38.0, Firefox ESR 31.x anterior a 31.7, y Thunderbird anterior a 31.7 permite a atacantes remotos ejecutar código arbitrario o causar una denegación de servicio (corrupción de memoria dinámica) a través de un documento que contiene un texto manipulado en conjunto con una secuencia de tokens Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) que contiene propiedades relacionadas con el texto vertical.
Jesse Ruderman, Mats Palmgren, Byron Campen, Steve Fink, Gary Kwong, Andrew McCreight, Christian Holler, Jon Coppeard, and Milan Sreckovic discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. Atte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow during the rendering of SVG content with certain CSS properties in some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. Various other issues were also addressed.
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Timeline
- 2015-03-25 CVE Reserved
- 2015-05-13 CVE Published
- 2024-08-06 CVE Updated
- 2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
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CWE
- CWE-416: Use After Free
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