CVE-2014-1509

high

Published 2014-03-19 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

Buffer overflow in the _cairo_truetype_index_to_ucs4 function in cairo, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 28.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.4, Thunderbird before 24.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.25, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted extension that renders fonts in a PDF document.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

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

Red Hat Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
6.5	Affected	—
6.0	Affected	—
5.0	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.1	Affected	—
12.3	Affected	—
11.4	Affected	—
11	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
13.10	Affected	—
12.10	Affected	—
12.04	Affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mozilla	firefox	`{"endExcluding":"28.0"}`	`28.0`
mozilla	seamonkey	`{"endExcluding":"2.25"}`	`2.25`
mozilla	thunderbird	`{"endExcluding":"24.4"}`	`24.4`
suse	suse_linux_enterprise_software_development_kit	`11.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-120

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

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