CVE-2013-5616 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-416 — Use After Free7 documents6 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
2.9%
top 13.71%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
16
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla Thunderbird+13 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 11
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsEventListenerManager::HandleEventSubType function in Mozilla Firefox before 26.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.2, Thunderbird before 24.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.23 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via vectors related to mListeners event listeners.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages10 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox24.0 — 24.2+1
▶NVDmozilla/seamonkey< 2.23
▶NVDopensuse/opensuse12.2, 12.3, 13.1+2

Also affects: Fedora 18, 19, 20, Ubuntu Linux 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10, Enterprise Linux 6.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-22j5-vqxp-92q2: Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsEventListenerManager::HandleEventSubType function in Mozilla Firefox before 26↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2013-5616: Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsEventListenerManager::HandleEventSubType function in Mozilla Firefox before 26↗2013-12-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2013-12-11
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2013-12-11
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free in event listeners (MFSA 2013-108)↗2013-12-10
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2013-5616 Mozilla: Use-after-free in event listeners (MFSA 2013-108)↗2013-12-09
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