Bug 1265591 (CVE-2015-4503) - CVE-2015-4503 Mozilla: Memory leak in mozTCPSocket to servers (MFSA 2015-97)
Summary: CVE-2015-4503 Mozilla: Memory leak in mozTCPSocket to servers (MFSA 2015-97)
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-4503
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1261782
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-09-23 10:18 UTC by Prasad Pandit
Modified: 2023-05-12 14:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2015-09-23 20:16:42 UTC
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Description Prasad Pandit 2015-09-23 10:18:35 UTC 
Security researcher David Chan reported that Mozilla's mozTCPSocket
implementation could leak data past the end of an array allowing for the
potential exposure of memory or private data to malicious servers.

This feature is used by Firefox OS and is disabled by default in Firefox on
other operating systems.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=994337

External References:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-97/
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2015-09-24 12:41:06 UTC 
Acknowledgements:

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