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CVE-2014-1518 json

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5, Thunderbird before…

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2014-1594

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.0%
EPSS 6.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5, Thunderbird before 24.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Patch / fix

  • mozilla firefox 24.5, 29.0
  • mozilla seamonkey 2.26
  • mozilla thunderbird 24.5
  • firefox Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
  • thunderbird Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1518

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • thunderbird RHEL 5 PRODUCTIVITY, RHEL 5 24.5.0-1.el5_10
  • thunderbird RHEL 6 24.5.0-1.el6_5
  • firefox RHEL 5 24.5.0-1.el5_10
  • firefox RHEL 6 24.5.0-1.el6_5

red hat advisories RHSA-2014:0449RHSA-2014:0448

  • 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-2014-1518 updated cvss 6.8

Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:24.5) (MFSA 2014-34)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) firefox 24.5.0-1.el5_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) firefox 24.5.0-1.el5_10, thunderbird 24.5.0-1.el5_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) firefox 24.5.0-1.el6_5, thunderbird 24.5.0-1.el6_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) firefox 24.5.0-1.el6_5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0448
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) thunderbird 24.5.0-1.el5_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0449
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) firefox 24.5.0-1.el6_5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0448
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) thunderbird 24.5.0-1.el6_5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0449
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) firefox 24.5.0-1.el6_5, thunderbird 24.5.0-1.el6_5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0448

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

5.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • bugzilla.mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992968 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugzilla.mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=952022 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugzilla.mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=944353 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugzilla.mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=986678 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugzilla.mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=980537 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugzilla.mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=966630 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugzilla.mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991471 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugzilla.mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=993546 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • bugzilla.mozilla.org https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=986843 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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