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high 7.5

CVE-2013-5607 json

Integer overflow in the PL_ArenaAllocate function in Mozilla Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) before 4.10.2, as used in Firefox before 25.0…

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2013-5447

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.0%
EPSS 3.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Integer overflow in the PL_ArenaAllocate function in Mozilla Netscape Portable Runtime (NSPR) before 4.10.2, as used in Firefox before 25.0.1, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.11 and 24.x before 24.1.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.22.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted X.509 certificate, a related issue to CVE-2013-1741.

Patch / fix

  • nspr Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2:4.10.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2013-5607

  • nss-util RHEL 6 3.15.3-1.el6_5
  • nss RHEL 6 3.15.3-2.el6_5
  • nspr RHEL 6 4.10.2-1.el6_5
  • nss-tools RHEL 6 3.15.3-2.el6_5
  • nss-sysinit RHEL 6 3.15.3-2.el6_5
  • nss RHEL 5 3.15.3-3.el5_10
  • nspr RHEL 5 4.10.2-2.el5_10
  • nss-tools RHEL 5 3.15.3-3.el5_10

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:1829RHSA-2013:1791

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red hat product security vex CVE-2013-5607 updated cvss 4.3

nspr: Avoid unsigned integer wrapping in PL_ArenaAllocate (MFSA 2013-103)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) nss 3.15.3-3.el5_10, nspr 4.10.2-2.el5_10, nss-tools 3.15.3-3.el5_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) nss 3.15.3-3.el5_10, nspr 4.10.2-2.el5_10, nss-tools 3.15.3-3.el5_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1791
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) nss 3.15.3-2.el6_5, nspr 4.10.2-1.el6_5, nss-util 3.15.3-1.el6_5, nss-tools 3.15.3-2.el6_5, nss-sysinit 3.15.3-2.el6_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) nss 3.15.3-2.el6_5, nspr 4.10.2-1.el6_5, nss-util 3.15.3-1.el6_5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1829
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) nss 3.15.3-3.el5_10, nspr 4.10.2-2.el5_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1791
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node (v. 6) nss 3.15.3-2.el6_5, nspr 4.10.2-1.el6_5, nss-util 3.15.3-1.el6_5, nss-tools 3.15.3-2.el6_5, nss-sysinit 3.15.3-2.el6_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) nss 3.15.3-2.el6_5, nspr 4.10.2-1.el6_5, nss-util 3.15.3-1.el6_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) nss 3.15.3-2.el6_5, nspr 4.10.2-1.el6_5, nss-util 3.15.3-1.el6_5, nss-tools 3.15.3-2.el6_5, nss-sysinit 3.15.3-2.el6_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) nss 3.15.3-2.el6_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) nss 3.15.3-2.el6_5, nspr 4.10.2-1.el6_5, nss-util 3.15.3-1.el6_5, nss-tools 3.15.3-2.el6_5, nss-sysinit 3.15.3-2.el6_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) nss 3.15.3-2.el6_5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1829
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 nspr
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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