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 arb…
Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free
EPSS: 0.029 (86.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
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.
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
- Redhat Enterprise_linux_desktop — versions 5.0, 6.0
- Redhat Enterprise_linux_eus — versions 6.5
- Redhat Enterprise_linux_server — versions 5.0, 6.0
- Redhat Enterprise_linux_server_aus — versions 6.5
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1958 (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- SUSE-SU-2013:1919 (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1957 (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- FEDORA-2013-23127 (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- FEDORA-2013-23519 (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- 1029470 (Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1917 (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1959 (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, 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.