Integer signedness error in the SharedBufferManagerParent::RecvAllocateGrallocBuffer function in the buffer-management implementation in th…

published 2015-08-08 11y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-5907

cvss: 5.0; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 1.1%; EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits: 0; none known

Integer signedness error in the SharedBufferManagerParent::RecvAllocateGrallocBuffer function in the buffer-management implementation in the graphics layer in Mozilla Firefox OS before 2.2 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a negative value of a size parameter.

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Exploit prediction

1.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	2.0	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-189 Numeric Errors

References

mozilla.org /security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-77.html
vendor-advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org /show_bug.cgi?id=1145389
securityfocus.com /bid/76253
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2015-5962
NVD CVE-2015-5962

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