CVE-2014-1593

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-12-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the mozilla::FileBlockCache::Read function in Mozilla Firefox before 34.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.3, Thunderbird before 31.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.31 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted media content.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 31.2; through 33.0
Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.30
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 31.2

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00024.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3090
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3092
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-88.html
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2015-2511959.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71395
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1085175
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00024.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3090

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