CVE-2014-1541

critical

Published 2014-06-11 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the RefreshDriverTimer::TickDriver function in the SMIL Animation Controller in Mozilla Firefox before 30.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.6, and Thunderbird before 24.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via crafted web content.

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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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mozilla	thunderbird	`{"endIncluding":"24.5"}`
mozilla	thunderbird	`24.0`
mozilla	thunderbird	`24.0.1`
mozilla	thunderbird	`24.1`
mozilla	thunderbird	`24.1.1`
mozilla	thunderbird	`24.2`
mozilla	thunderbird	`24.3`
mozilla	thunderbird	`24.4`
mozilla	firefox	`{"endIncluding":"29.0.1"}`
mozilla	firefox	`24.0`
mozilla	firefox	`24.0.1`
mozilla	firefox	`24.0.2`
mozilla	firefox	`24.1.0`
mozilla	firefox	`24.1.1`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`24.2`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`24.3`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`24.4`
mozilla	firefox_esr	`24.5`

References

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

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