CVE-2015-0824: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The mozilla::layers::BufferTextureClient::AllocateForSurface function in Mozilla Firefox before 36.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds write of zero values, and application crash) via vectors that trigger use of DrawTarget and the Cairo library for image drawing.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 14.10 only
• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 35.0.1; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; …
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only

Published 2015-02-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.