Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2014-1531
Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsGenericHTMLElement::GetWidthHeightForImage function in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5, Thunderbird before 24.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via vectors involving an imgLoader object that is not properly handled during an image-resize operation.
Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.056 (92.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 92.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.056 · newest: 0.056 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 12.04, 12.10, 13.10
- Debian Linux — versions 7.0, 8.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 19, 20
- openSUSE — versions 11.4, 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
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0448.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-44.html (Vendor Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00013.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- 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)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00015.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1030165 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2014-1531?
- CVE-2014-1531 is a high-severity vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox, classified under Use After Free. CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2014-04-30.
- How severe is CVE-2014-1531?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.