CVE-2014-1519

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-04-30 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 12.10, 13.10, 14.04
Fedoraproject Fedora: 19, 20
Mozilla Firefox: before 29.0 — fixed in 29.0
Mozilla Seamonkey: before 2.26 — fixed in 2.26
Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Mozilla Firefox 29.0; Mozilla Seamonkey 2.26. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132332.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00010.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00033.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59866
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-34.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030164
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2185-1
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=919592
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=946658

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