CVE-2015-7176: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The AnimationThread function in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 uses an incorrect argument to the sscanf function, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: version 38.0 only; version 38.0.1 only; version 38.0.5 only; version 38.1.0 only; version 38.1.1 only; version 38.2.0 only; …

Published 2015-09-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.