CVE-2013-5601 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2013-5601

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsEventListenerManager::SetEventHandler function in Mozilla Firefox before...

Vulnerability Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsEventListenerManager::SetEventHandler function 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 via vectors related to a memory allocation through the garbage collection (GC) API.

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

seamonkey, firefox, thunderbird, thunderbird esr
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 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, 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

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.