CVE-2015-4484 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x prior to 38.2, as well as products from Canonical, OpenSUSE, and Oracle. The flaw resides in the JavaScript engine's lock_addl function, allowing remote attackers to crash the application by manipulating Atomics or SharedArrayBuffer objects through shared memory. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity. It can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and requires no authentication, leading to a denial of service (application crash) without compromising confidentiality or integrity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code is available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB. The vulnerability has received minimal community discussion and media coverage, suggesting a low profile and limited current threat.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
15.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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