CVE-2014-1563

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.8% 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-416

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::DOMSVGLength::GetTearOff function in Mozilla Firefox before 32.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.1, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via an SVG animation with DOM interaction that triggers incorrect cycle collection.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 31.1.0; 30.0, 31.0
Mozilla Thunderbird: 31.0
openSUSE Evergreen: 11.4
Opensuse: 12.3, 13.1
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.3

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00003.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/61114
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-68.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69523
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030793
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030794
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1018524

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