CVE-2015-7183

nspr: heap-buffer overflow in PL_ARENA_ALLOCATE (MFSA 2015-133)

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Severity

Critical

Red Hat Product Security

6.8

CVSS 2.0

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Published · November 3, 2015

Updated · March 18, 2026

Description

A heap-based buffer overflow was found in NSPR. An attacker could use this flaw to cause NSPR to crash or execute arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running an application compiled against the NSPR library.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-190 · Integer Overflow or Wraparound