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critical 10.0

CVE-2013-5599 json

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsIPresShell::GetPresContext function in the PresShell (aka presentation shell) implementation in Mozil…

published 13y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-5439

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.2%
EPSS 5.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsIPresShell::GetPresContext function in the PresShell (aka presentation shell) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.10 and 24.x before 24.1, Thunderbird before 24.1, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.22 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) via vectors involving a CANVAS element, a mozTextStyle attribute, and an onresize event.

Patch / fix

  • thunderbird RHEL 5 PRODUCTIVITY, RHEL 5 17.0.10-1.el5_10
  • thunderbird RHEL 6 17.0.10-1.el6_4
  • firefox RHEL 5 17.0.10-1.el5_10
  • firefox RHEL 6 17.0.10-1.el6_4
  • xulrunner RHEL 5 17.0.10-1.el5_10
  • xulrunner RHEL 6 17.0.10-1.el6_4

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:1480RHSA-2013:1476

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 50.1.0-1.1
  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 45.5.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-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-2013-5599 updated cvss 6.8

Mozilla: Miscellaneous use-after-free issues found through ASAN fuzzing (MFSA 2013-100)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) firefox 17.0.10-1.el5_10, xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el5_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) firefox 17.0.10-1.el5_10, xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el5_10, thunderbird 17.0.10-1.el5_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) firefox 17.0.10-1.el6_4, xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el6_4, thunderbird 17.0.10-1.el6_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el6_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el5_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) firefox 17.0.10-1.el6_4, xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el6_4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1476
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) thunderbird 17.0.10-1.el5_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1480
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) firefox 17.0.10-1.el6_4, xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el6_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el6_4, thunderbird 17.0.10-1.el6_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) firefox 17.0.10-1.el6_4, xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el6_4, thunderbird 17.0.10-1.el6_4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 17.0.10-1.el6_4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1476

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Exploit prediction

5.19% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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