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MFSA2015-07 Firefox: Gecko Media Plugin sandbox escape (CVE-2014-8643)

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MFSA2015-07 Firefox: Gecko Media Plugin sandbox escape (CVE-2014-8643)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N)
Published
01/13/2015
Created
07/25/2018
Added
01/15/2015
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 35.0 on Windows allows remote attackers to bypass the Gecko Media Plugin (GMP) sandbox protection mechanism by leveraging access to the GMP process, as demonstrated by the OpenH264 plugin's process.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-35_0

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