CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2014-1563

Use After Free

Published: Sep 03, 2014 | Modified: Apr 12, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
10 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
6.8 CRITICAL
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::DOMSVGLength::GetTearOff function in Mozilla Firefox before 32.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.1, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via an SVG animation with DOM interaction that triggers incorrect cycle collection.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Evergreen Opensuse 11.4 (including) 11.4 (including)
Opensuse Opensuse 12.3 (including) 12.3 (including)
Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 (including) 13.1 (including)
Firefox Ubuntu devel *
Firefox Ubuntu lucid *
Firefox Ubuntu precise *
Firefox Ubuntu trusty *
Firefox Ubuntu upstream *
Thunderbird Ubuntu devel *
Thunderbird Ubuntu lucid *
Thunderbird Ubuntu precise *
Thunderbird Ubuntu trusty *
Thunderbird Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

References