CVE-2014-1538
Mozilla: Use-after-free and out of bounds issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2014-49)
Severity
CriticalRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · June 10, 2014
Updated · June 27, 2026
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditRules::CreateMozBR function in Mozilla Firefox before 30.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.6, and Thunderbird before 24.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CWE-125 · Out-of-bounds Read