CVE-2014-1576: mozilla firefox

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2014-1576 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 5.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 15-10-2014
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsTransformedTextRun function in Mozilla Firefox before 33.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.2, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) token sequences that trigger changes to capitalization style.

• 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.