CVE-2014-1490 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2014-1490?

CVE-2014-1490 is a critical use after free vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 6 Feb 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Race condition in libssl in Mozilla Network Security Services (NSS) before 3.15.4, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 27.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.3, Thunderbird before 24.3, SeaMonkey before 2.24, and other products, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via vectors involving a resumption handshake that triggers incorrect replacement of a session ticket.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1490?

It affects 13 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Network Security Services, Mozilla Seamonkey and 7 more.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1490?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2014-1490 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1490 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-1490, GHSA-68r6-xqmg-xhxx.