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CVE-2014-1488

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-02-06 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The Web workers implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.24 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving termination of a worker process that has performed a cross-thread object-passing operation in conjunction with use of asm.js.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 12.10, 13.10
• Mozilla Firefox: before 27.0 — fixed in 27.0
• Mozilla Seamonkey: before 2.24 — fixed in 2.24
• Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1
• Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 11-sp3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 11-sp3
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11-sp3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 27.0; Mozilla Seamonkey 2.24. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00010.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.html
• http://osvdb.org/102875
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56706
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56767
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56787
• http://secunia.com/advisories/56888
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-11.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/65321
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029717

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