CVE-2013-5616 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2013-5616

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

Vulnerability Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsEventListenerManager::HandleEventSubType function in Mozilla Firefox before 26.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.2, Thunderbird before 24.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.23 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via vectors related to mListeners event listeners.

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

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

firefox, seamonkey, thunderbird, fedora, suse linux enterprise software development kit, opensuse, suse linux enterprise desktop, suse linux enterprise server, enterprise linux desktop, enterprise linux eus, enterprise linux server, enterprise linux server aus, enterprise linux server eus, enterprise linux server tus, enterprise linux workstation, ubuntu linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 24.0, 18, 19, 20, 11.0, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 11, 5.0, 6.0, 6.5, 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10

Timeline

Official Publish: December 11th, 2013
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.