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CVE-2015-2708 json

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.7, and Thunderbird be…

published 2015-05-14 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-2798

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.5%
EPSS 4.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 38.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.7, and Thunderbird before 31.7 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Patch / fix

  • firefox Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 38.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • thunderbird Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1:31.7.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2708

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • thunderbird RHEL 5 PRODUCTIVITY, RHEL 5 31.7.0-1.el5_11
  • thunderbird RHEL 6 31.7.0-1.el6_6
  • thunderbird RHEL 7 31.7.0-1.el7_1
  • thunderbird RHEL 7 31.7.0-1.ael7b_1
  • firefox RHEL 5 38.0-4.el5_11
  • firefox RHEL 6 38.0-4.el6_6
  • firefox RHEL 7 38.0-3.el7_1

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:1012RHSA-2015:0988

  • MozillaFirefox SLES for SAP 12, SLES 12, SLED 12 +1 more 31.7.0esr-34.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:0960-1

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 50.1.0-1.1
  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 45.5.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-2708 updated cvss 6.8

Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:31.7) (MFSA 2015-46)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) firefox 38.0-4.el5_11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) firefox 38.0-3.el7_1, thunderbird 31.7.0-1.el7_1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) firefox 38.0-3.el7_1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) firefox 38.0-4.el5_11, thunderbird 31.7.0-1.el5_11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) firefox 38.0-4.el6_6, thunderbird 31.7.0-1.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) firefox 38.0-4.el6_6
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) firefox 38.0-4.el6_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0988
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) thunderbird 31.7.0-1.el5_11
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1012
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) firefox 38.0-4.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) firefox 38.0-3.el7_1, firefox 38.0-3.ael7b_1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) firefox 38.0-4.el6_6, thunderbird 31.7.0-1.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) firefox 38.0-3.el7_1, thunderbird 31.7.0-1.el7_1, thunderbird 31.7.0-1.ael7b_1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) firefox 38.0-4.el6_6, thunderbird 31.7.0-1.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) firefox 38.0-3.el7_1, thunderbird 31.7.0-1.el7_1
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) firefox 38.0-4.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) firefox 38.0-3.el7_1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0988

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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