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CVE-2013-0767: Mozilla Firefox: Memory corruption
CVE-2013-0767 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Mozilla Firefox, along with 10 other products in NVD’s configuration data. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.
Vulnerability description
The nsSVGPathElement::GetPathLengthScale function in Mozilla Firefox before 18.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.12 and 17.x before 17.0.1, Thunderbird before 17.0.2, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.12 and 17.x before 17.0.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.15 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via unspecified vectors.
Severity breakdown
CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
- Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
- Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
- Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
- Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
- Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.
Underlying weakness
CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read
The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox: before 18.0; from 10.0 before 10.0.12; from 17.0 before 17.0.2
- Mozilla Seamonkey: before 2.15
- Mozilla Thunderbird: before 17.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird Esr: from 10.0 before 10.0.12; from 17.0 before 17.0.2
- Opensuse: 11.4; 12.1; 12.2
- Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 10 sp4; 11 sp2
- Suse Linux Enterprise Server: 10 sp4; 11 sp2
- Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 10 sp4; 11 sp2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 5.0; 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: 5.9; 6.3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: 5.0; 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 5.9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 5.0; 6.0
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04; 11.10; 12.04; 12.10
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=812161
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-02.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00007.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00017.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0144.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0145.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57195
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1681-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1681-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1681-4
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16171