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Unscored USN-2243-1 8 CVEs

firefox vulnerabilities

Published Jun 11, 2014 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Gary Kwong, Christoph Diehl, Christian Holler, Hannes Verschore, Jan de
Mooij, Ryan VanderMeulen, Jeff Walden, Kyle Huey, Jesse Ruderman, Gregor
Wagner, Benoit Jacob and Karl Tomlinson discovered multiple memory safety
issues in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially
crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a
denial of service via application crash, or execute arbitrary code with
the privileges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1533,
CVE-2014-1534)

Abhishek Arya discovered multiple use-after-free and out-of-bounds read
issues in Firefox. An attacker could potentially exploit these to cause
a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code with
the priviliges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1536,
CVE-2014-1537, CVE-2014-1538)

Tyson Smith and Jesse Schwartzentruber discovered a use-after-free in the
event listener manager. An attacker could potentially exploit this to
cause a denial of service via application crash or execute arbitrary code
with the priviliges of the user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1540)

A use-after-free was discovered in the SMIL animation controller. An
attacker could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via
application crash or execute arbitrary code with the priviliges of the
user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1541)

Holger Fuhrmannek discovered a buffer overflow in Web Audio. An attacker
could potentially exploit this to cause a denial of service via
application crash or execute arbitrary code with the priviliges of the
user invoking Firefox. (CVE-2014-1542)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS firefox 30.0+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.3

Vulnerabilities 8

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1533

    Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 30.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.6…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1534

    Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 30.0 allow remote attackers to cau…

    firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1536

    The PropertyProvider::FindJustificationRange function in Mozilla Firefox before 30.0 allows remote attackers to execute…

    firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1537

    Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozilla::dom::workers::WorkerPrivateParent function in Mozilla Firefox before 30.0 …

    firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1538

    Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditRules::CreateMozBR function in Mozilla Firefox before 30.0, Firefox ESR 2…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1540

    Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsEventListenerManager::CompileEventHandlerInternal function in the Event Listener …

    firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1541

    Use-after-free vulnerability in the RefreshDriverTimer::TickDriver function in the SMIL Animation Controller in Mozilla…

    thunderbird firefox Ubuntu
  • Unscored —
    CVE-2014-1542

    Buffer overflow in the Speex resampler in the Web Audio subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 30.0 allows remote attacker…

    firefox Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1533
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1534
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1536
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1537
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1538
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1540
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1541
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-1542
  • report
    https://launchpad.net/bugs/1326690