CVE-2013-5596 describes a race condition vulnerability in the cycle collection implementation of Mozilla Firefox, Firefox ESR, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey. This flaw, rated Medium severity (CVSS 6.8), allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service by exploiting improper thread determination during image object release, typically via large HTML documents with numerous IMG elements. While it has a moderate potential impact (C:P/I:P/A:P), there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 24.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
17.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:17.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
17.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:17.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
17.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:17.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
17.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:17.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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