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Cent OS: CVE-2015-2722: CESA-2015:1207 (firefox)

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Cent OS: CVE-2015-2722: CESA-2015:1207 (firefox)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
07/05/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the CanonicalizeXPCOMParticipant function in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0 and Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.8 and 38.x before 38.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving attachment of an XMLHttpRequest object to a shared worker.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-firefox

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