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title: "CVE-2015-7327\n    | Ubuntu"
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# CVE-2015-7327

Publication date 24 September 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

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Ubuntu priority

**Medium**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## Description

Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 does not properly restrict the availability of
High Resolution Time API times, which allows remote attackers to track
last-level cache access, and consequently obtain sensitive information, via
crafted JavaScript code that makes performance.now calls.

[Read the notes from the security team](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-7327?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
| --- | --- | --- |
| firefox | 15.04 vivid | Not affected |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Not affected |
| thunderbird | 15.04 vivid | Not affected |
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Not in release |
| 12.04 LTS precise | Not affected |

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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [seth-arnold](https://launchpad.net/~seth-arnold)

Windows-specific issue doesn't affect Linux or OS X

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7327)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-7327)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2015-7327)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-7327)

### Other references

* <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1167489>
* <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1153672>
* <http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-114.html>
* <http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07373>
* <https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-7327>
