| Name | CVE-2015-7183 |
| Description | Integer overflow in the PL_ARENA_ALLOCATE implementation in Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.19.2.1 and 3.20.x before 3.20.1, as used in Firefox before 42.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.4 and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via unspecified vectors. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-344-1, DSA-3393-1, DSA-3406-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| nspr (PTS) | bullseye | 2:4.29-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2:4.35-1 | fixed |
| trixie | 2:4.35-1.1 | fixed |
| sid | 2:4.36-1 | fixed |
| virtualbox (PTS) | sid/contrib | 7.0.20-dfsg-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[squeeze] - virtualbox-ose <end-of-life> (No longer supported in Squeeze LTS)
[wheezy] - virtualbox <no-dsa> (Minor issue, will be fixed when included in next CPU)
VirtualBox fixed: 4.0.36, 4.1.44, 4.2.36, 4.3.34, 5.0.10
http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/rev/c9c965b2b19c
http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/rev/bd8fb4498fa6
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-133/
Icedove, virtualbox(-ose)? have embedded copies of nspr.
Fixes impact macros PL_ARENA_ALLOCATE and PL_ARENA_GROW, other packages need to be recompiled:
jss (on wheezy/jessie) according to codesearch.debian.net