CVE-2015-4495 - Cognitive Housing

Description

The PDF reader in Mozilla Firefox before 39.0.3 Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.1.1 and Firefox OS before 2.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read arbitrary files or gain privileges via vectors involving crafted JavaScript code and a native setter as exploited in the wild in August 2015.

Reference

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1178058 https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/08/06/firefox-exploit-found-in-the-wild/ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1179262 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2015/mfsa2015-78.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2707-1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76249 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033216 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00009.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1581.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00014.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00015.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201512-10 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00016.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00010.html https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37772/