mozilla thunderbird-esr CVE-2013-1675 vulnerability in Mozilla and Other Products
Published on May 16, 2013

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Mozilla Firefox before 21.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.6, Thunderbird before 17.0.6, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.6 do not properly initialize data structures for the nsDOMSVGZoomEvent::mPreviousScale and nsDOMSVGZoomEvent::mNewScale functions, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted web site.

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Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Mozilla Firefox Information Disclosure Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Mozilla Firefox does not properly initialize data structures for the nsDOMSVGZoomEvent::mPreviousScale and nsDOMSVGZoomEvent::mNewScale functions, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted web site.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by March 24, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2013-1675 can be exploited with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has an exploitability score of 2.8 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity and availability.

Improper Initialization

The software does not initialize or incorrectly initializes a resource, which might leave the resource in an unexpected state when it is accessed or used. This can have security implications when the associated resource is expected to have certain properties or values, such as a variable that determines whether a user has been authenticated or not.


Products Associated with CVE-2013-1675

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Mozilla Thunderbird Esr
 
Mozilla Thunderbird
 
Mozilla FireFox Extended Support Release (ESR)
 
Mozilla Firefox
 
Canonical Ubuntu Linux
 
Debian Linux
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Scientific Computing
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Ibm Z Systems
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Power Big Endian
 
Red Hat Gluster Storage Server On Premise
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus From Rhui
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Ibm Z Systems Eus
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Power Big Endian Eus
 
OpenSuse
 

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