Use-after-free vulnerability in the FontTableRec destructor in Mozilla Firefox before 31.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.7, and Thunderbird…

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the FontTableRec destructor in Mozilla Firefox before 31.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.7, and Thunderbird before 24.7 on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted use of fonts in MathML content, leading to improper handling of a DirectWrite font-face object.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.7% · top 8.2% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• GLSA-201504-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1030620 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 1030619 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1018234 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 59760 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-59.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 09:42 UTC.