CVE-2014-1538 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-416 — Use After FreeCWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer9 documents6 sources
Severity
10.0CRITICALNVD
EPSS
2.7%
top 14.14%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla ThunderbirdMozilla Firefox ESR
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditRules::CreateMozBR function in Mozilla Firefox before 30.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.6, and Thunderbird before 24.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages5 packages

▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 30.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.3
▶NVDmozilla/firefox29.0.1+5
▶NVDmozilla/firefox_esr4 versions+3
▶Ubuntumozilla/thunderbird< 1:24.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-qwgq-rxww-h5mj: Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditRules::CreateMozBR function in Mozilla Firefox before 30↗2022-05-14
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OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2014-06-19
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2014-06-11
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OSV
CVE-2014-1538: Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditRules::CreateMozBR function in Mozilla Firefox before 30↗2014-06-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2014-06-19
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2014-06-11
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free and out of bounds issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2014-49)↗2014-06-10
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-1538 Mozilla: Use-after-free and out of bounds issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2014-49)↗2014-06-10
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