CVE-2013-1055
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2013-1055 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLIC |
| Assigner | [email protected] |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2021-04-07 20:15:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2021-04-20 19:21:00 UTC |
| Description | The unity-firefox-extension package could be tricked into dropping a C callback which was still in use, which Firefox would then free, causing Firefox to crash. This could be achieved by adding an action to the launcher and updating it with new callbacks until the libunity-webapps rate limit was hit. Fixed in 3.0.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1 of unity-firefox-extension and in all versions of libunity-webapps by shipping an empty unity-firefox-extension package, thus disabling the extension entirely and invalidating the attack against the libunity-webapps package. |
Risk And Classification
Problem Types: CWE-404
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating System | Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | 14.04 | All | All | All |
| Operating System | Canonical | Ubuntu Linux | 15.04 | All | All | All |
| Application | Canonical | Unity-firefox-extension | All | All | All | All |
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu.com/USN-2743-3 | UBUNTU | ubuntu.com | |
| Bug #1175691 “Rate limit in libunity-webapps can be abused to ma...” : Bugs : unity-firefox-extension package : Ubuntu | UBUNTU | launchpad.net | |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
Vendor Comments And Credit
Discovery Credit
LEGACY: Chris Coulson
There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.