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CVE-2014-1532

Mozilla: Use-after-free in nsHostResolver (MFSA 2014-46)

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 nsHostResolver::ConditionallyRefreshRecord function in libxul.so in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5, Thunderbird before 24.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via vectors related to host resolution.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 7icedove, iceweasel24.5.0-1~deb7u1 and 1 more
Oracle Linux 5firefox, thunderbird24.5.0-1.0.1.el5_10
Oracle Linux 6firefox, thunderbird24.5.0-1.0.1.el6_5
ubuntu 12.04firefox, thunderbird29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.2 and 1 more
ubuntu 12.10firefox, thunderbird29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.3 and 1 more
ubuntu 13.10firefox, thunderbird29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.3 and 1 more
ubuntu 14.04firefox, thunderbird29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 and 1 more
Show all 14 entries from 7 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
debian 7icedove24.5.0-1~deb7u1
debian 7iceweasel24.5.0esr-1~deb7u1
Oracle Linux 5firefox24.5.0-1.0.1.el5_10
Oracle Linux 5thunderbird24.5.0-1.0.1.el5_10
Oracle Linux 6firefox24.5.0-1.0.1.el6_5
Oracle Linux 6thunderbird24.5.0-1.0.1.el6_5
ubuntu 12.04firefox29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.2
ubuntu 12.04thunderbird1:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1
ubuntu 12.10firefox29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.3
ubuntu 12.10thunderbird1:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.10.1
ubuntu 13.10firefox29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.3
ubuntu 13.10thunderbird1:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.13.10.1
ubuntu 14.04firefox29.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.2
ubuntu 14.04thunderbird1:24.5.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1

References

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