{"schemaVersion":3,"id":"USN-2372-1","aliases":[],"status":"published","duplicateOf":null,"title":null,"description":"firefox vulnerabilities\n\nBobby Holley, Christian Holler, David Bolter, Byron Campen, Jon Coppeard,\nCarsten Book, Martijn Wargers, Shih-Chiang Chien, Terrence Cole and\nJeff Walden discovered multiple memory safety issues in Firefox. If a user\nwere tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could\npotentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application\ncrash, or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user invoking\nFirefox. (CVE-2014-1574, CVE-2014-1575)\n\nAtte Kettunen discovered a buffer overflow during CSS manipulation. If a\nuser were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker\ncould potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via\napplication crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the\nuser invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1576)\n\nHolger Fuhrmannek discovered an out-of-bounds read with Web Audio. If a\nuser were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker\ncould potentially exploit this to steal sensitive information.\n(CVE-2014-1577)\n\nAbhishek Arya discovered an out-of-bounds write when buffering WebM video\nin some circumstances. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially\ncrafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a\ndenial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with\nthe privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1578)\n\nMichal Zalewski discovered that memory may not be correctly initialized\nwhen rendering a malformed GIF in to a canvas in some circumstances. If\na user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker\ncould potentially exploit this to steal sensitive information.\n(CVE-2014-1580)\n\nA use-after-free was discovered during text layout in some circumstances.\nIf a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an\nattacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via\napplication crash or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the\nuser invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1581)\n\nPatrick McManus and David Keeler discovered 2 issues that could result\nin certificate pinning being bypassed in some circumstances. An attacker\nwith a fraudulent certificate could potentially exploit this conduct a\nmachine-in-the-middle attack. (CVE-2014-1582, CVE-2014-1584)\n\nEric Shepherd and Jan-Ivar Bruaroey discovered issues with video sharing\nvia WebRTC in iframes, where video continues to be shared after being\nstopped and navigating to a new site doesn't turn off the camera. An\nattacker could potentially exploit this to access the camera without the\nuser being aware. (CVE-2014-1585, CVE-2014-1586)\n\nBoris Zbarsky discovered that webapps could use the Alarm API to read the\nvalues of cross-origin references. If a user were tricked in to installing\na specially crafter webapp, an attacker could potentially exploit this to\nbypass same-origin restrictions. (CVE-2014-1583)","dates":{"published":"2014-10-14T17:22:49.000Z","modified":"2026-04-22T09:02:43.765Z","reserved":null,"kevAdded":[],"kevDue":[]},"cvss":{"headline":{"score":null,"severity":"unknown","version":null,"versionLabel":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"computed":false,"selection":"none"},"metrics":[]},"epss":{"probability":null,"percentile":null,"severity":"unknown","asOf":null,"change":{"pp":null,"baselineDate":null,"baselineScore":null},"history":[],"last30":[]},"kev":{"state":"not-listed","entries":[],"listedCount":0,"totalCatalogs":3,"catalogs":[{"source":"cisa","label":"CISA","listed":false,"entry":null},{"source":"enisa","label":"ENISA","listed":false,"entry":null},{"source":"circl","label":"CIRCL","listed":false,"entry":null}]},"ransomware":{"state":"none-recorded","sources":[]},"exploits":[],"exploitCount":0,"weaknesses":[],"affected":[{"vendor":"ubuntu","product":"firefox","name":"firefox","label":"firefox","ecosystem":"Ubuntu","cpePart":null,"purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/firefox","purlType":"deb","versions":[{"text":"< 33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","noFixRecorded":false,"fixedIn":null}],"versionsText":"< 33.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1","eol":null,"hubHref":null}],"affectedCount":1,"eol":{"hasEol":false,"count":0},"references":[{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2372-1","label":"ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2372-1","hostname":"ubuntu.com","tags":["Advisory"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1574","label":"ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1574","hostname":"ubuntu.com","tags":["REPORT"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1575","label":"ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1575","hostname":"ubuntu.com","tags":["REPORT"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1576","label":"ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1576","hostname":"ubuntu.com","tags":["REPORT"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1577","label":"ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1577","hostname":"ubuntu.com","tags":["REPORT"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1578","label":"ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1578","hostname":"ubuntu.com","tags":["REPORT"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1580","label":"ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1580","hostname":"ubuntu.com","tags":["REPORT"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1581","label":"ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1581","hostname":"ubuntu.com","tags":["REPORT"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1582","label":"ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1582","hostname":"ubuntu.com","tags":["REPORT"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1583","label":"ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1583","hostname":"ubuntu.com","tags":["REPORT"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1584","label":"ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1584","hostname":"ubuntu.com","tags":["REPORT"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1585","label":"ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1585","hostname":"ubuntu.com","tags":["REPORT"]},{"url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1586","label":"ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1586","hostname":"ubuntu.com","tags":["REPORT"]}],"lineage":{"upstream":["CVE-2014-1574","CVE-2014-1575","CVE-2014-1576","CVE-2014-1577","CVE-2014-1578","CVE-2014-1580","CVE-2014-1581","CVE-2014-1582","CVE-2014-1583","CVE-2014-1584","CVE-2014-1585","CVE-2014-1586"],"downstream":[],"duplicates":[],"related":["CVE-2014-1574","CVE-2014-1575","CVE-2014-1576","CVE-2014-1577","CVE-2014-1578","CVE-2014-1580","CVE-2014-1581","CVE-2014-1582","CVE-2014-1583","CVE-2014-1584","CVE-2014-1585","CVE-2014-1586"]},"timeline":[{"kind":"published","date":"2014-10-14T17:22:49.000Z","label":"Published","detail":"Vulnerability first disclosed.","source":null},{"kind":"modified","date":"2026-04-22T09:02:43.765Z","label":"Last modified","detail":"Vulnerability information updated.","source":null}],"risk":{"score":0,"level":"minimal","profile":"Default","thresholds":{"critical":75,"high":50,"medium":25,"low":10}},"meta":{"dataAsOf":"2026-10-19T12:12:16.037Z","stale":false,"partial":false}}