CVE-2013-5596

The cycle collection (CC) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.1, Thunderbird before 24.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.22 does not properly determine the thread for release of an image object, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (race condition and application crash) via a large HTML document containing IMG elements, as demonstrated by the Never-Ending Reddit on reddit.com.

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.8 Medium

Status

Modified - security@mozilla.org

Published

2013-10-30

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-119

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)
• Seamonkey (Mozilla)
• Thunderbird (Mozilla)
• Thunderbird Esr (Mozilla)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00005.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00006.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-97.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910881
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A19066
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01