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Cent OS: CVE-2013-5599: CESA-2013:1480 (thunderbird)

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Cent OS: CVE-2013-5599: CESA-2013:1480 (thunderbird)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/30/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-firefox
  • centos-upgrade-thunderbird
  • centos-upgrade-xulrunner
  • centos-upgrade-xulrunner-devel

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