CVE-2015-2728

Publication date 5 July 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

The IndexedDatabaseManager class in the IndexedDB implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0 and Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.8 and 38.x before 38.1 misinterprets an unspecified IDBDatabase field as a pointer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via unspecified vectors, related to a "type confusion" issue.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
firefox	15.04 vivid	Fixed 39.0+build5-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
	14.10 utopic	Fixed 39.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.10.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 39.0+build5-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 39.0+build5-0ubuntu0.12.04.2

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References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2656-1
Firefox vulnerabilities
9 July 2015

USN-2656-2
Firefox vulnerabilities
15 July 2015

Other references

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-61/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1142210
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-61.html
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2728