CVE-2014-1525
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 4.4%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-416
- EPSS score
- 4.4% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-1601)
- Published
- April 30, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-1601 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- fedoraproject / fedora
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132437.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00010.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-05/msg00033.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59866(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-39.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030163(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030164(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2185-1(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=989210(Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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