CVE-2013-5609

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2013-5609 · Published 11/12/2013 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2013-5609 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla), seamonkey (mozilla), thunderbird (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 8.1%, higher than 94.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 24.2, 26.0, 2.23 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`≥ 24.0, < 24.2< 26.0`	`24.226.0`
seamonkey mozilla	`< 2.23`	`2.23`
thunderbird mozilla	`< 24.2`	`24.2`
suse linux enterprise software development kit suse	`= 11.0`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 26.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.2, Thunderbird before 24.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.23 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

References

lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/123437.html · Mailing List
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124108.html · Mailing List
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2013-December/124257.html · Mailing List
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-January/125470.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-12/msg00010.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00085.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00086.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00087.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00119.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00120.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00121.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00002.html · Mailing List
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1812.html · Third Party Advisory
mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-104.html · Vendor Advisory
oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html · Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com/id/1029470 · Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com/id/1029476 · Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2052-1 · Third Party Advisory
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2053-1 · Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi · Exploit
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi · Exploit
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi · Exploit
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi · Exploit
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01 · Third Party Advisory

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