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CVE-2015-4522 (GCVE-0-2015-4522)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-09-24 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 06:18
VLAI
Summary
The nsUnicodeToUTF8::GetMaxLength function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors, related to an "overflow."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
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Date Public
2015-09-22 00:00
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      "product_status:known_affected": "1",
      "product_status:recommended": "464",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
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}



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