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CVE-2015-4512

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.4)—

gfx/2d/DataSurfaceHelpers.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 on Linux improperly attempts to use the Cairo library with 32-bit color-depth surface creation followed by 16-bit color-depth surface display, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) by using a CANVAS element to trigger 2D rendering.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Mozilla — Firefox

CWEs

References

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