CVE-2014-1525
HIGH severity · CVSS 9.3 · Use-after-free
9.3CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)4%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-39.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00010.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00033.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59866Advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163Advisory
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030164Advisory