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MFSA2013-114 Firefox: Use-after-free in synthetic mouse movement (CVE-2013-5613)

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MFSA2013-114 Firefox: Use-after-free in synthetic mouse movement (CVE-2013-5613)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
12/10/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/12/2013
Modified
08/17/2020

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the PresShell::DispatchSynthMouseMove function in Mozilla Firefox before 26.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.2, Thunderbird before 24.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.23 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via vectors involving synthetic mouse movement, related to the RestyleManager::GetHoverGeneration function.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-24_2
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-26_0

References

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