CVE-2013-1055

MEDIUM

unity-firefox-extension < 3.0.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1 - Use-After-Free via Launcher Action Callback

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The unity-firefox-extension package could be tricked into dropping a C callback which was still in use, which Firefox would then free, causing Firefox to crash. This could be achieved by adding an action to the launcher and updating it with new callbacks until the libunity-webapps rate limit was hit. Fixed in 3.0.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1 of unity-firefox-extension and in all versions of libunity-webapps by shipping an empty unity-firefox-extension package, thus disabling the extension entirely and invalidating the attack against the libunity-webapps package.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://ubuntu.com/USN-2743-3
Exploit, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1175691

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0127
EPSS Percentile 66.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-404
Status published
Products (3)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 15.04
canonical/unity-firefox-extension < 3.0.0\+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1
Published Apr 07, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026