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
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.044 (91.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 91st percentile — 91.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.044 · newest: 0.044 · change: 0.000
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
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00010.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00033.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/59866 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (Third Party Advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-39.html (Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2185-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1030164 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)