CVE-2014-1551 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2014-1551

Use-after-free vulnerability in the FontTableRec destructor in Mozilla Firefox before...

Vulnerability Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the FontTableRec destructor in Mozilla Firefox before 31.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.7, and Thunderbird before 24.7 on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted use of fonts in MathML content, leading to improper handling of a DirectWrite font-face object.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

firefox, firefox esr, thunderbird
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 24.0, 24.0.1, 24.0.2, 24.1.0, 24.1.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4, 24.5, 24.6, 24.1

Timeline

Official Publish: July 23rd, 2014
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.