Medium severity · published Apr 7, 2021
CVE-2013-1055
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
4.3
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 70% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
14.04; 15.04 · source: NVD
UN
Unity-firefox-extension · Canonical
before 3.0.0\+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-1055
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-1055
Exploit
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1175691
Vendor Advisory
https://ubuntu.com/USN-2743-3
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