CVE-2013-5596 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00005.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-11/msg00006.html http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-97.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=910881 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A19066 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01