CVE-2014-1587

Impact:
Critical
Public Date:
2014-12-02
CWE:
CWE-120
Bugzilla:
1169201: CVE-2014-1587 Mozilla: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:31.3) (MFSA 2014-83)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 34.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.3, Thunderbird before 31.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.31 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Find out more about CVE-2014-1587 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.8
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (thunderbird) RHSA-2014:1924 2014-12-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (firefox) RHSA-2014:1919 2014-12-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (firefox) RHSA-2014:1919 2014-12-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (firefox) RHSA-2014:1919 2014-12-02
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (thunderbird) RHSA-2014:1924 2014-12-02

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 thunderbird Affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Gary Kwong, Randell Jesup, Nils Ohlmeier, Jesse Ruderman, and Max Jonas Werner as the original reporters.

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