Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2013-5616
Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsEventListenerManager::HandleEventSubType function in Mozilla Firefox before 26.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.2, Thunderbird before 24.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.23 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via vectors related to mListeners event listeners.
Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.067 (93.8th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 93.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.067 · newest: 0.067 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 12.04, 12.10, 13.04
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 18, 19, 20
- openSUSE — versions 12.2, 12.3, 13.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 5.0, 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus — versions 6.5
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 5.0, 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus — versions 6.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00120.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00010.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00119.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123437.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124257.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1029470 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00086.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00121.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-108.html (Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2013-5616?
- CVE-2013-5616 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2013-12-11.
- How severe is CVE-2013-5616?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.