Buffer overflow - CVE-2015-7183

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Buffer overflow - CVE-2015-7183

Published: November 5, 2015 / Updated: August 4, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU33644
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-7183
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to read and manipulate data.

Integer overflow in the PL_ARENA_ALLOCATE implementation in Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19.2.1 and 3.20.x before 3.20.1, as used in Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via unspecified vectors.


Affected software

Amazon Linux AMI
Slackware Linux
nspr (Alpine package)
FlashSystem 840 9840-AE1 & 9843-AE1
FlashSystem 900 9840-AE2 and 9843-AE2
IBM Storwize V7000
IBM Storwize V5000
IBM Storwize V3700
IBM Storwize V3500
IBM SAN Volume Controller

How to mitigate CVE-2015-7183

Install update from vendor's website.

nspr (Alpine package) - update to 4.10.10-r0
FlashSystem 840 9840-AE1 & 9843-AE1 - update to 1.5.2.6-468.155
FlashSystem 900 9840-AE2 and 9843-AE2 - update to 1.6.1.5-515.226
IBM Storwize V7000 - addressed in versions 7.4.0.9, 7.5.0.7, 7.6.0.4, 7.6.1.1
IBM Storwize V5000 - addressed in versions 7.4.0.9, 7.5.0.7, 7.6.0.4, 7.6.1.1
IBM Storwize V3700 - addressed in versions 7.4.0.9, 7.5.0.7, 7.6.0.4, 7.6.1.1
IBM Storwize V3500 - addressed in versions 7.4.0.9, 7.5.0.7, 7.6.0.4, 7.6.1.1
IBM SAN Volume Controller - addressed in versions 7.4.0.9, 7.5.0.7, 7.6.0.4, 7.6.1.1

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