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National Vulnerability Database

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CVE-2013-1055 Detail

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.


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Hyperlink Resource
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1175691 Exploit  Vendor Advisory 
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1175691 Exploit  Vendor Advisory 
https://ubuntu.com/USN-2743-3 Vendor Advisory 
https://ubuntu.com/USN-2743-3 Vendor Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release cwe source acceptance level NIST   Canonical Ltd.  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2013-1055
NVD Published Date:
04/07/2021
NVD Last Modified:
11/20/2024
Source:
Canonical Ltd.