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CVE-2014-1538 json

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditRules::CreateMozBR function in Mozilla Firefox before 30.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.6, and…

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2014-1614

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.9%
EPSS 4.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditRules::CreateMozBR function in Mozilla Firefox before 30.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.6, and Thunderbird before 24.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

  • firefox Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 30.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.3
  • thunderbird Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1:24.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1538

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 24.6.0-1.el5_10
  • thunderbird RHEL 6 24.6.0-1.el6_5
  • firefox RHEL 5 24.6.0-1.el5_10
  • firefox RHEL 6 24.6.0-1.el6_5
  • firefox RHEL 7 24.6.0-1.el7_0
  • xulrunner RHEL 7 24.6.0-1.el7_0

red hat advisories RHSA-2014:0742RHSA-2014:0741

  • 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-2014-1538 updated cvss 6.8

Mozilla: Use-after-free and out of bounds issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2014-49)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) firefox 24.6.0-1.el5_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) firefox 24.6.0-1.el7_0, xulrunner 24.6.0-1.el7_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) firefox 24.6.0-1.el7_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) xulrunner 24.6.0-1.el7_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) firefox 24.6.0-1.el5_10, thunderbird 24.6.0-1.el5_10 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) firefox 24.6.0-1.el6_5, thunderbird 24.6.0-1.el6_5
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) firefox 24.6.0-1.el6_5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0741
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) thunderbird 24.6.0-1.el5_10
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0742
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) firefox 24.6.0-1.el6_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) firefox 24.6.0-1.el7_0, xulrunner 24.6.0-1.el7_0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0741
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) thunderbird 24.6.0-1.el6_5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0742
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) firefox 24.6.0-1.el7_0, xulrunner 24.6.0-1.el7_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) firefox 24.6.0-1.el6_5, thunderbird 24.6.0-1.el6_5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) firefox 24.6.0-1.el7_0, xulrunner 24.6.0-1.el7_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) firefox 24.6.0-1.el7_0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0741

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

4.91% 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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