CVE-2014-1590

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2014-12-02
CWE:
CWE-20
Bugzilla:
1169206: CVE-2014-1590 Mozilla: XMLHttpRequest crashes with some input streams (MFSA 2014-85)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The XMLHttpRequest.prototype.send method in Mozilla Firefox before 34.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.3, Thunderbird before 31.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.31 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted JavaScript object.

Find out more about CVE-2014-1590 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
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 Will not fix

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Joe Vennix as the original reporter.

External References

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