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critical 9.3

CVE-2013-0766 json

Use-after-free vulnerability in the ~nsHTMLEditRules implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 18.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.12 and 17.…

published 13y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-0777

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.7%
EPSS 4.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in the ~nsHTMLEditRules implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 18.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.12 and 17.x before 17.0.1, Thunderbird before 17.0.2, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.12 and 17.x before 17.0.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.15 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

  • mozilla firefox 10.0.12, 17.0.2, 18.0
  • mozilla seamonkey 2.15
  • mozilla thunderbird 17.0.2
  • mozilla thunderbird_esr 10.0.12, 17.0.2
  • thunderbird RHEL 5 PRODUCTIVITY 10.0.12-3.el5_9
  • thunderbird RHEL 6 10.0.12-3.el6_3
  • firefox RHEL 5 10.0.12-1.el5_9
  • firefox RHEL 6 10.0.12-1.el6_3
  • xulrunner RHEL 5 10.0.12-1.el5_9
  • xulrunner RHEL 6 10.0.12-1.el6_3

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:0145RHSA-2013:0144

  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 50.1.0-1.1
  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 45.5.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2013-0766 updated cvss 6.8

Mozilla: Use-after-free and buffer overflow issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2013-02)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 thunderbird
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) firefox 10.0.12-1.el5_9, xulrunner 10.0.12-1.el5_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) firefox 10.0.12-1.el6_3, xulrunner 10.0.12-1.el6_3, thunderbird 10.0.12-3.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 10.0.12-1.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) firefox 10.0.12-1.el6_3, xulrunner 10.0.12-1.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) firefox 10.0.12-1.el6_3, xulrunner 10.0.12-1.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 10.0.12-1.el6_3, thunderbird 10.0.12-3.el6_3
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) firefox 10.0.12-1.el6_3, xulrunner 10.0.12-1.el6_3, thunderbird 10.0.12-3.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 10.0.12-1.el6_3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:0144
  • Red Hat RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) thunderbird 10.0.12-3.el5_9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:0145

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Exploit prediction

4.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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