CVE-2015-4492

Published: 11 August 2015

Use-after-free vulnerability in the XMLHttpRequest::Open implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a SharedWorker object that makes recursive calls to the open method of an XMLHttpRequest object.

Priority

Status

Package	Release	Status
firefox Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	upstream	Released (40.0)
	precise	Released (40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1)
	trusty	Does not exist (trusty was released [40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1])
	vivid	Released (40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.15.04.1)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-4492
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-92/
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2702-1
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