CVE-2014-1532

CRITICAL

Firefox < 29.0 - Use-After-Free in nsHostResolver

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHostResolver::ConditionallyRefreshRecord function in libxul.so 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 related to host resolution.

References (23)

Core 23
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0448.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00013.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00010.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00033.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00015.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030165
Broken Link third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/59866
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00040.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2189-1
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0449.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-05/msg00006.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2918
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2924
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2185-1
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67130
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030164
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966006
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0489
EPSS Percentile 89.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (26)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 13.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
debian/debian_linux 7.0
debian/debian_linux 8.0
fedoraproject/fedora 19
fedoraproject/fedora 20
mozilla/firefox < 29.0
mozilla/seamonkey < 2.26
... and 16 more
Published Apr 30, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026