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MFSA2013-98 Firefox: Use-after-free when updating offline cache (CVE-2013-5597)

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MFSA2013-98 Firefox: Use-after-free when updating offline cache (CVE-2013-5597)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/29/2013
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2013
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsDocLoader::doStopDocumentLoad function 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) via vectors involving a state-change event during an update of the offline cache.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-17_0_10
  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-24_1
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-25_0

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