Vulnerabilities / CVE-2013-5616

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CVE-2013-5616

Mozilla: Use-after-free in event listeners (MFSA 2013-108)

Published Modified CWE 416
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Red Hat. Rated lower by Oracle (high), Ubuntu (medium).

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsEventListenerManager::HandleEventSubType 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 related to mListeners event listeners.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 7iceapeno fix listed
Oracle Linux 5firefox, thunderbird24.2.0-1.0.1.el5_10 and 1 more
Oracle Linux 6firefox, thunderbird24.2.0-1.0.1.el6_5
ubuntu 12.04firefox, thunderbird26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 and 1 more
ubuntu 12.10firefox, thunderbird26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.10.2 and 1 more
ubuntu 13.04firefox, thunderbird26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.04.2 and 1 more
ubuntu 13.10firefox, thunderbird26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 and 1 more
Show all 13 entries from 7 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
debian 7iceapeno fix listed
Oracle Linux 5firefox24.2.0-1.0.1.el5_10
Oracle Linux 5thunderbird24.2.0-2.0.1.el5_10
Oracle Linux 6firefox24.2.0-1.0.1.el6_5
Oracle Linux 6thunderbird24.2.0-1.0.1.el6_5
ubuntu 12.04firefox26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.2
ubuntu 12.04thunderbird1:24.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
ubuntu 12.10firefox26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.10.2
ubuntu 12.10thunderbird1:24.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
ubuntu 13.04firefox26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.04.2
ubuntu 13.04thunderbird1:24.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.13.04.1
ubuntu 13.10firefox26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2
ubuntu 13.10thunderbird1:24.2.0+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.1

References

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