CVE-2013-1723: mozilla firefox

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2013-1723 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 1.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 18-09-2013
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The NativeKey widget in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Thunderbird before 24.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.21 processes key messages after destruction by a dispatched event listener, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by leveraging incorrect event usage after widget-memory reallocation.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.