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| Rule General Information |
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| Release Date: | 2018-09-25 | |
| Rule Name: | WEB-CLIENT Mozilla Firefox Onreadystatechange Use after Free Vulnerability (CVE-2013-1690) | |
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| Rule Protection Details |
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| Description: | Mozilla Firefox before 22.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.7, Thunderbird before 17.0.7, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.7 do not properly handle onreadystatechange events in conjunction with page reloading, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site that triggers an attempt to execute data at an unmapped memory location. | |
| Impact: | A use-after-free vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker in the vulnerable product. Successful exploit may cause some adverse consequences, such as crash of the product, execution of arbitrary code. | |
| Affected OS: | Windows | |
| Reference: | SecurityFocusBID:60778 https://vuldb.com/?id.9289 |
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| Solutions |
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| Upgrading to version 22.0 eliminates this vulnerability. |