CVE-2013-1055CWE-404

Potential DoS through abuse of rate limit in libunity-webapps for Firefox

Medium · published April 7, 2021

CVSS v3.1
4.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
69.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The unity-firefox-extension package could be tricked into dropping a C callback which was still in use, which Firefox would then free, causing Firefox to crash. This could be achieved by adding an action to the launcher and updating it with new callbacks until the libunity-webapps rate limit was hit. Fixed in 3.0.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1 of unity-firefox-extension and in all versions of libunity-webapps by shipping an empty unity-firefox-extension package, thus disabling the extension entirely and invalidating the attack against the libunity-webapps package.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01275 · 69.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-404 · Improper Resource Shutdown or Release
Published
2021-04-07T19:20Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 APR 19:20Z
    Potential DoS through abuse of rate limit in libunity-webapps for Firefox
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