Firefox OsOperating system · Mozilla
CVE-2015-5962
Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.
NVD · uneditedInteger signedness error in the SharedBufferManagerParent::RecvAllocateGrallocBuffer function in the buffer-management implementation in the graphics layer in Mozilla Firefox OS before 2.2 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a negative value of a size parameter.
Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.
dbcve analysis · high confidenceInteger signedness error in SharedBufferManagerParent::RecvAllocateGrallocBuffer allows a negative size parameter value to be passed, leading to memory corruption. The function processes gralloc buffer allocations in the Firefox OS graphics layer without properly validating that the size parameter is a positive unsigned integer before using it in memory operations.
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Affected products & versions What the vendor confirmedThe version ranges the vendor confirmed as vulnerable. If your version sits inside a range here, treat yourself as exposed until you have upgraded.
NVD · CPE data
Firefox OsOperating system
<= 2.1.0CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.
From the vector- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Authentication
- None
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- Partial
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.
dbcve checksWork through these to decide whether this CVE applies to you.
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Identify Firefox OS versionAccess the device Settings, navigate to About Phone or Device Information, and locate the Software version or Firefox OS version entryAffected if The displayed version is 2.1.0 or lower
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Confirm graphics subsystem is activeVerify the device is running with an active display and graphics rendering capability (gralloc is used whenever the display is active)Affected if The device has an active display session, which is required for the vulnerable gralloc buffer allocation code path to be reached
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Check if gralloc buffer allocation occursMonitor or inspect graphics buffer allocation operations through system logs or debugging interfaces if availableAffected if Any application requests a graphics buffer allocation while running on the vulnerable version, triggering the flawed code path in SharedBufferManagerParent::RecvAllocateGrallocBuffer
A system is affected if it is running Firefox OS version 2.1.0 or lower and actively using the graphics subsystem, which enables the vulnerable gralloc buffer allocation pathway.
Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.
Remediation Closing itWhat it takes to close this. Where a vendor fix exists we point at it; where none exists we say so plainly, and can build one. Effort estimates are scoped from the advisory, not from your codebase.
From vendor dataUpgrade Firefox OS to version 2.2 or later, which contains the fix for proper signed/unsigned integer handling and size parameter validation in the buffer allocation function.
Fix this in Firefox Os
Scoped from the published advisory
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References Go to the primary sourcePrimary sources — vendor advisories, patches and trackers. Where our summary and a reference disagree, the reference wins.
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