Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsGenericHTMLElement::GetWidthHeightForImage function in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5, Thunderbird before 24.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via vectors involving an imgLoader object that is not properly handled during an image-resize operation.
The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:
Find out more about CVE-2014-1531 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Base Score | 6.8 |
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Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
Access Vector | Network |
Access Complexity | Medium |
Authentication | None |
Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
Integrity Impact | Partial |
Availability Impact | Partial |
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Platform | Errata | Release Date |
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) | RHSA-2014:0448 | 2014-04-29 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) | RHSA-2014:0449 | 2014-04-29 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) (thunderbird) | RHSA-2014:0449 | 2014-04-29 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) | RHSA-2014:0449 | 2014-04-29 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) | RHSA-2014:0448 | 2014-04-29 |