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CVE-2014-1525

The mozilla::dom::TextTrack::AddCue function in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.26 does not properly perform garbage collection for Text Track Manager variables, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and heap memory corruption) via a crafted VIDEO element in an HTML document.

Published

2014-04-30T10:49:04.863

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 9.3 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-416
CWE-787

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	mozilla	firefox	< 29.0	Yes
Application	mozilla	seamonkey	< 2.26	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	12.04	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	12.10	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	13.10	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	14.04	Yes
Operating System	opensuse	opensuse	12.3	Yes
Operating System	opensuse	opensuse	13.1	Yes
Operating System	fedoraproject	fedora	19	Yes

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00033.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/59866 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-39.html Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030164 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2185-1 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=989210 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00033.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/59866 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-39.html Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030164 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2185-1 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=989210 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)