CVE-2014-1478

critical
Published 2014-02-06 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.24 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to the MPostWriteBarrier class in js/src/jit/MIR.h and stack alignment in js/src/jit/AsmJS.cpp in OdinMonkey, and unknown other vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
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

suse SUSE Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.1 Affected โ€”
12.3 Affected โ€”
11.4 Affected โ€”
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
13.10 Affected โ€”
12.10 Affected โ€”
12.04 Affected โ€”

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox{"endExcluding":"27.0"}27.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey{"endExcluding":"2.24"}2.24

References

CWEs

CWE-787

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.