The TCP Socket API implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 mishandles array boundaries that were established with a navigator.mozTCPSocket.open method call and send method calls, which allows remote TCP servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory by reading packet data, as demonstrated by availability of this API in a Firefox OS application.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-4523 The TCP Socket API implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 mishandles array boundaries that were established with a navigator.mozTCPSocket.open method call and send method calls, which allows remote TCP servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory by reading packet data, as demonstrated by availability of this API in a Firefox OS application.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T06:18:11.613Z

Reserved: 2015-06-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-4503

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2015-09-24T04:59:06.160

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2015-4503

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-4503 - Bugzilla

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