CVE-2013-5596 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer7 documents6 sources
Severity
6.8MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.8%
top 17.29%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla Thunderbird+1 more
Timeline
PublishedOct 30
Latest updateMay 14

Description

The cycle collection (CC) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.1, Thunderbird before 24.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.22 does not properly determine the thread for release of an image object, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (race condition and application crash) via a large HTML document containing IMG elements, as demonstrated by the Never-Ending Reddit on reddit.com.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox24.0+12
▶NVDmozilla/seamonkey2.22+38
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird24.0.1+10

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-mr8h-ff7v-3qqc: The cycle collection (CC) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 25↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2013-5596: The cycle collection (CC) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 25↗2013-10-30
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2013-10-31
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Writing to cycle collected object during image decoding (MFSA 2013-97)↗2013-10-29
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2013-10-29
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2013-5596 Mozilla: Writing to cycle collected object during image decoding (MFSA 2013-97)↗2013-10-28
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CVE-2013-5596 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase