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CVE-2015-7216

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-7216 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox on Linux GNOME platforms, affecting versions prior to 43.0. The flaw stems from gdk-pixbuf's incorrect enablement of the JasPer decoder, allowing remote attackers to trigger a DoS or potentially other unspecified impacts via a crafted JPEG 2000 image. With a CVSS score of 6.8, this vulnerability has a network attack vector, medium attack complexity, and partial impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:23:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 42.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
42.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:42.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.13%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0213 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Vendor Patches (1)

mozillavendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-7216Moderate

Mozilla: Linux file chooser crashes on malformed JPEG2000 and TGA images due to flaws in underlying libraries (MFSA 2015-143)

Dec 16, 2015

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174083.html
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174253.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00104.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00007.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00008.html
bugzilla.mozilla.org / show_bug.cgi
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201512-10
mozilla.org / security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-143.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/79278
securitytracker.com / id/1034426
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2833-1