CVE-2013-5596

The cycle collection (CC) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.1, Thunderbird before 24.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.22 does…

published October 30, 2013

CVSS
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EPSS
3%
Percentile
87.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The cycle collection (CC) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.1, Thunderbird before 24.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.22 does not properly determine the thread for release of an image object, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (race condition and application crash) via a large HTML document containing IMG elements, as demonstrated by the Never-Ending Reddit on reddit.com.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03144 · 87.8th percentile
Published
2013-10-30T10:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 OCT 10:00Z
    The cycle collection (CC) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.1, Thunderbird before 24.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.22 does…
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