CVE-2014-1564
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 5.5%EU EUVD
Mozilla Firefox before 32.0, Firefox ESR 31.x before 31.1, and Thunderbird 31.x before 31.1 do not properly initialize memory for GIF rendering, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via crafted web script that interacts with a CANVAS element associated with a malformed GIF image.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-824
- EPSS score
- 5.5% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-1640)
- Published
- September 3, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-1640 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / thunderbird
- opensuse / evergreen
- opensuse / opensuse
- opensuse / opensuse
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00003.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00024.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00031.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-09/msg00011.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128132/Mozilla-Firefox-Secret-Leak.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Sep/18
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60148
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61114
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-69.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/533357/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69525
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030793
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030794
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1045977(Issue Tracking)
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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