CVE-2014-1531

high
Published 2014-04-30 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
9.3
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsGenericHTMLElement::GetWidthHeightForImage function in Mozilla Firefox before 29.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.5, Thunderbird before 24.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via vectors involving an imgLoader object that is not properly handled during an image-resize operation.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=987140

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: security@mozilla.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-44.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu13.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
redhat rhel5.0affected
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel6.5affected
suse suse11.4affected
suse suse12.3affected
suse suse13.1affected
suse suse10affected
suse suse11affected
fedora fedora19affected
fedora fedora20affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozillafirefox{"endExcluding":"29.0"}29.0
mozillaseamonkey{"endExcluding":"2.26"}2.26
mozillathunderbird{"endExcluding":"24.5"}24.5

References

CWEs

CWE-416

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.