CVE-2014-1563

CRITICAL 10.0CVE-2014-1563 · Published 03/09/2014 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-1563 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla), thunderbird (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 5.8%, higher than 93.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`= 30.0= 31.0≤ 31.1.0`	No fix yet
thunderbird mozilla	`= 31.0`	No fix yet

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::DOMSVGLength::GetTearOff function in Mozilla Firefox before 32.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.1, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via an SVG animation with DOM interaction that triggers incorrect cycle collection.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00003.html · Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00024.html · Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00011.html · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/60148
secunia.com/advisories/61114
mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-68.html · Vendor Advisory
oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html · Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/69523
securitytracker.com/id/1030793
securitytracker.com/id/1030794
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi · Issue Tracking

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