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MFSA2013-64 Firefox: Use after free mutating DOM during SetBody (CVE-2013-1704)

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MFSA2013-64 Firefox: Use after free mutating DOM during SetBody (CVE-2013-1704)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/06/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/07/2013
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsINode::GetParentNode function in Mozilla Firefox before 23.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.20 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) via vectors involving a DOM modification at the time of a SetBody mutation event.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-23_0

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