CVE-2014-1525 Use after free in n/a

What is CVE-2014-1525?

CVE-2014-1525 is a critical use after free vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 30 Apr 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The mozilla::dom::TextTrack::AddCue function in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.26 does not properly perform garbage collection for Text Track Manager variables, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (use-after-free and heap memory corruption) via a crafted VIDEO element in an HTML document.

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-1525?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Opensuse Opensuse.

How do I fix CVE-2014-1525?

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-2014-1525 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-1525 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 GHSA-22m9-g4cq-h743, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-1525.