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CVE-2015-0808 (GCVE-0-2015-0808)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-04-01 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 04:26
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Summary
The webrtc::VPMContentAnalysis::Release function in the WebRTC implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 37.0 uses incompatible approaches to the deallocation of memory for simple-type arrays, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-03-31 00:00
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