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CVE-2015-7218 (GCVE-0-2015-7218)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-16 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:43
VLAI
Summary
The HTTP/2 implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 43.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer underflow, assertion failure, and application exit) via a single-byte header frame that triggers incorrect memory allocation.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-1… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2016-0… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfs… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2833-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79280 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034426 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Date Public
2015-12-15 00:00
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