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CVE-2015-4492

Published: Aug 16, 2015

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the XMLHttpRequest::Open implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a SharedWorker object that makes recursive calls to the open method of an XMLHttpRequest object.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

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affected
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References

76297
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
SUSE-SU-2015:2081
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
openSUSE-SU-2015:1454
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
USN-2702-3
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
openSUSE-SU-2015:1389
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
openSUSE-SU-2015:1453
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
RHSA-2015:1586
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
SUSE-SU-2015:1528
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
1033247
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
USN-2702-2
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
USN-2702-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
GLSA-201605-06
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO
SUSE-SU-2015:1449
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
DSA-3333
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
openSUSE-SU-2015:1390
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE

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