Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-2740

Title: Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-2740.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Jul 06, 2015

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.63%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-2740: Buffer overflow in the nsXMLHttpRequest::AppendToResponseText function in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.8 and 38.x before 38.1, and Thunderbird before 38.1 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service or have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Impacted Vendors

mozilla 3

suse 1

novell 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00025.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00033.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00034.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1207.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1455.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3300 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3324 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-66.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75541 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032783 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032784 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2656-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2656-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2673-1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1170809 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00025.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00033.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00034.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1207.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1455.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3300 http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3324 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-66.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinoct2015-2511968.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75541 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032783 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032784 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2656-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2656-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2673-1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1170809 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-2740 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

July 06, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.