Bug 928116 (CVE-2015-2706) - VUL-0: CVE-2015-2706 MozillaFirefox: Memory corruption during failed plugin initialization (MFSA 2015-45)
Summary: VUL-0: CVE-2015-2706 MozillaFirefox: Memory corruption during failed plugin i...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2015-2706
Product: SUSE Security Incidents
Classification: Novell Products
Component: Incidents (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other openSUSE 13.2
: P3 - Medium : Major
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QA Contact: Security Team bot
URL: https://smash.suse.de/issue/116132/
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Reported: 2015-04-22 08:33 UTC by Andreas Stieger
Modified: 2020-04-05 18:19 UTC (History)
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Description Andreas Stieger 2015-04-22 08:33:40 UTC 
Memory corruption during failed plugin initialization

Announced: April 20, 2015
Reporter:  Robert Kaiser
Impact:    High
Products:  Firefox
Fixed in:  Firefox 37.0.2

Description: Mozilla developer Robert Kaiser (Kairo) reported that a race condition when initialization of a plugin fails led to a potentially exploitable use-after-free vulnerability.

References:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-45/
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1141081
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1213935
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-2706
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-2706.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2706

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Comment 1 Bernhard Wiedemann 2015-04-22 17:00:14 UTC 
This is an autogenerated message for OBS integration:
This bug (928116) was mentioned in
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/298646 Factory / MozillaFirefox
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/298648 13.2 / MozillaFirefox
https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/298649 13.1 / MozillaFirefox
Comment 2 Swamp Workflow Management 2015-04-22 22:00:15 UTC 
bugbot adjusting priority
Comment 3 Andreas Stieger 2015-04-23 08:21:55 UTC 
Thanks for the submission, updates are running.
Comment 4 Swamp Workflow Management 2015-04-24 08:05:53 UTC 
openSUSE-SU-2015:0763-1: An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Category: security (moderate)
Bug References: 928116
CVE References: CVE-2015-2706
Sources used:
openSUSE 13.2 (src):    MozillaFirefox-37.0.2-27.1
Comment 5 Andreas Stieger 2015-05-12 19:57:12 UTC 
Released