Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-7217

Title: Gnome Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-7217.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Dec 16, 2015

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.81%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-7217: The gdk-pixbuf configuration in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 on Linux GNOME platforms incorrectly enables the TGA decoder, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) via a crafted Truevision TGA image.

Impacted Vendors

mozilla 1

gnome 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174083.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174253.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00104.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00007.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00008.html http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-143.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79278 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034426 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2833-1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1203078 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174083.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/174253.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-12/msg00104.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00007.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-02/msg00008.html http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-143.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79278 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034426 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2833-1 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1203078 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-7217 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 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.

December 16, 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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.