CVE-2013-5599 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2013-5599

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsIPresShell::GetPresContext function in the PresShell (aka...

Vulnerability Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsIPresShell::GetPresContext function in the PresShell (aka presentation shell) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.10 and 24.x before 24.1, Thunderbird before 24.1, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.22 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) via vectors involving a CANVAS element, a mozTextStyle attribute, and an onresize event.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

firefox, seamonkey, thunderbird esr, thunderbird
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 19.0, 19.0.1, 19.0.2, 20.0, 20.0.1, 21.0, 22.0, 23.0, 23.0.1, 17.0, 17.0.1, 17.0.2, 17.0.3, 17.0.4, 17.0.5, 17.0.6, 17.0.7, 17.0.8, 17.0.9, 24.0, 24.0.1, 24.0.2, 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8, 2.0.9, 2.0.10, 2.0.11, 2.0.12, 2.0.13, 2.0.14, 2.1, 2.10, 2.10.1, 2.11, 2.12, 2.12.1, 2.13, 2.13.1, 2.13.2, 2.14, 2.15, 2.15.1, 2.15.2, 2.16, 2.16.1, 2.16.2, 2.17, 2.17.1, 2.18, 2.19, 2.20, 2.21, 2.22

Timeline

Official Publish: October 30th, 2013
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.