CVE-2015-4478

Publication date 11 August 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 do not impose certain ECMAScript 6 requirements on JavaScript object properties, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via the reviver parameter to the JSON.parse method.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
firefox	15.04 vivid	Fixed 40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.15.04.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Fixed 40.0+build4-0ubuntu0.12.04.1

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References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-2702-1
Firefox vulnerabilities
11 August 2015

Other references

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-82/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-4478