CVE-2014-1562

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-09-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 32.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.8 and 31.x before 31.1, and Thunderbird 24.x before 24.8 and 31.x before 31.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 31.1.0; 24.0, 24.0.1, 24.0.2, 24.1.0, 24.1.1, 31.0 (+1)
Mozilla Firefox ESR: 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, 24.6, 24.7
Mozilla Thunderbird: 24.0, 24.0.1, 24.1, 24.1.1, 24.2, 24.3 (+5)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00003.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00005.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00007.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00012.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00024.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00011.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/60148
http://secunia.com/advisories/60186
http://secunia.com/advisories/61114
http://secunia.com/advisories/61390
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3018

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