CVE-2013-5616

critical
Published 2013-12-11 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

fedora Fedora Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
20 Affected โ€”
19 Affected โ€”
18 Affected โ€”
redhat Red Hat Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
6.5 Affected โ€”
6.0 Affected โ€”
5.0 Affected โ€”
suse SUSE Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.1 Affected โ€”
12.3 Affected โ€”
12.2 Affected โ€”
11 Affected โ€”
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.10 Affected โ€”
13.04 Affected โ€”
12.10 Affected โ€”
12.04 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endExcluding":"26.0"}26.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey{"endExcluding":"2.23"}2.23
mozilla mozillathunderbird{"endExcluding":"24.2"}24.2
suse susesuse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit11.0

References

CWEs

CWE-416

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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