PT-2014-4244 · Mozilla+5 · Firefox+8

Published 2014-10-26 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2014-1592

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 34.0 Firefox ESR 31.x versions prior to 31.3 Thunderbird versions prior to 31.3 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.31

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by adding a second root element to an HTML5 document during parsing. This is due to a use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHtml5TreeOperation function in xul.dll.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 34.0, update to version 34.0 or later. For Firefox ESR 31.x versions prior to 31.3, update to version 31.3 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 31.3, update to version 31.3 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.31, update to version 2.31 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2301

ALT-PU-2014-2319

ALT-PU-2014-2449

ALT-PU-2015-1464

CESA-2014_1919

CESA-2014_1924

CVE-2014-1592

DSA-3090-1

DSA-3092-1

MGASA-2014-0507

MGASA-2014-0518

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2014:1919

RHSA-2014:1924

RHSA-2014_1919

RHSA-2014_1924

USN-2424-1

USN-2428-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Firefox Esr

Firefox

Red Hat

Seamonkey

Suse

Thunderbird

Ubuntu

References · 2268

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_proxy_prototype.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_pdfjs_privilege_escalation.rb · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09815 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8635 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2715 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8638 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0826 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0831 · Security Note
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-2449 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09885 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-0805 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2706 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-10028 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09895 · Security Note
• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2014-89 · Vendor Advisory