Bug 1265621 (CVE-2015-4507)

Summary: CVE-2015-4507 Mozilla: Crash when using debugger with SavedStacks in JavaScript (MFSA 2015-102)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Prasad Pandit <ppandit>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Prasad Pandit 2015-09-23 11:17:00 UTC
Security researcher Spandan Veggalam reported a crash while using the debugger
API with SavedStacks in JavaScript. This crash can only occurs when the
debugger is in use but may be potentially exploitable.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1192401

External References:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-102/

Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-09-24 12:33:53 UTC
Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Spandan Veggalam as the original reporter.

Comment 2 Martin Prpič 2015-09-24 16:35:35 UTC
This issue was fixed in Firefox version 41.