Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2014-1525
The mozilla::dom::TextTrack::AddCue function in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.26 does not properly perform garbage collection for Text Track Manager variables, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and heap memory corruption) via a crafted VIDEO element in an HTML document.
Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free
EPSS: 0.044 (90.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Canonical Ubuntu_linux — versions 12.04, 12.10, 13.10
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 19
- Opensuse — versions 12.3, 13.1
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
- security@mozilla.org (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Third Party Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- security@mozilla.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- security@mozilla.org (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)