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CVE-2015-0797

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-0797 describes a buffer over-read vulnerability in GStreamer versions prior to 1.4.5, impacting Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird on Linux. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code by processing specially crafted H.264 video data within an m4v file. With a CVSS score of 6.8, it is considered a medium-severity vulnerability, requiring medium attack complexity and potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gstreamer:gstreamer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 38.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 31.0, < 31.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 2.35CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 31.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.44%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0544 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

mozillapatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: firefox-0:38.0-4.el5_11
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: firefox-0:38.0-4.el6_6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: firefox-0:38.0-3.ael7b_1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-0797Moderate

Mozilla: Buffer overflow parsing H.264 video with Linux Gstreamer (MFSA 2015-47)

May 12, 2015

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00017.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00054.html
Broken Link
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00000.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0988.html
Third Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1012.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/03/msg00038.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201512-07
Third Party Advisory
mozilla.org / en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/thunderbird
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3225
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3260
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3264
Third Party Advisory
mozilla.org / security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-47.html
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
Third Party Advisory