CVE-2013-5618

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 nsNodeUtils::LastRelease function in the table-editing user interface in the editor component 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 by triggering improper garbage collection.

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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