The cycle collection (CC) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.1, Thunderbird before 24.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.22 does not properly determine the thread for release of an image object, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (race condition and application crash) via a large HTML document containing IMG elements, as demonstrated by the Never-Ending Reddit on reddit.com.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published: 2013-10-30T10:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T17:15:21.420Z

Reserved: 2013-08-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2013-5596

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2013-10-30T10:55:04.477

Modified: 2018-10-30T16:26:10.390

Link: CVE-2013-5596

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2013-10-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2013-5596 - Bugzilla