CVE-2015-2712
Mozilla: Out-of-bounds read and write in asm.js validation (MFSA 2015-50)
Severity
CriticalRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · May 12, 2015
Updated · November 21, 2025
Description
The asm.js implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0 does not properly determine heap lengths during identification of cases in which bounds checking may be safely skipped, which allows remote attackers to trigger out-of-bounds write operations and possibly execute arbitrary code, or trigger out-of-bounds read operations and possibly obtain sensitive information from process memory, via crafted JavaScript.
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 · 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read