UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0823

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0823

    Published: 25 Feb 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-0823
    Aliases:
    USN-2505-1

    Summary:

    Details: Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in OpenType Sanitiser, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 36.0, might allow remote attackers to trigger problematic Developer Console information or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging incorrect macro expansion, related to the ots::ots_gasp_parse function.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-0823, https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-23/, https://github.com/khaledhosny/ots/commit/003c62d28ae438aa8943cb31535563397f838a2c, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1098497, http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-23.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2505-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-0823

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: firefox

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4

    Affected versions

    24.0+build1-0ubuntu1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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