Description
The TCP Socket API implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 mishandles array boundaries that were established with a navigator.mozTCPSocket.open method call and send method calls, which allows remote TCP servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory by reading packet data, as demonstrated by availability of this API in a Firefox OS application.
Published: 2015-09-24
Score: 5.0 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-4523 The TCP Socket API implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 mishandles array boundaries that were established with a navigator.mozTCPSocket.open method call and send method calls, which allows remote TCP servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory by reading packet data, as demonstrated by availability of this API in a Firefox OS application.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:18:11.613Z

Reserved: 2015-06-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-4503

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-09-24T04:59:06.160

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-4503

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-4503 - Bugzilla

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