CVE-2015-0828

Mozilla: Double-free when using non-default memory allocators with a zero-length XHR (MFSA 2015-18)

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.1

CVSS 2.0

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Published · February 24, 2015

Updated · January 14, 2026

Description

Double free vulnerability in the nsXMLHttpRequest::GetResponse function in Mozilla Firefox before 36.0, when a nonstandard memory allocator is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via crafted JavaScript code that makes an XMLHttpRequest call with zero bytes of data.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and 7.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-416 · Use After Free