CVE-2015-7179: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The VertexBufferInterface::reserveVertexSpace function in libGLES in ANGLE, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 41.0 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.3 on Windows, incorrectly allocates memory for shader attribute arrays, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (buffer overflow and application crash) via crafted (1) OpenGL or (2) WebGL content.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 40.0.3; version 38.0 only; version 38.0.1 only; version 38.0.5 only; version 38.1.0 only; version 38.1.1 only; …

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