CVE-2015-4493: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 7.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the stagefright::ESDS::parseESDescriptor function in libstagefright in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid size field in an esds chunk in MPEG-4 video data, a related issue to CVE-2015-1539.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.04 only
• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 39.0.3; version 38.0 only; version 38.0.1 only; version 38.0.5 only; version 38.1.0 only
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 11.3 only

Published 2015-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.