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CVE-2014-1550

CRITICAL

10.0

CVSS Severity Score

EPSS Score0.0960%

EPSS Percentile10.94th

PublishedJul 23, 2014

Last ModifiedMay 6, 2026

Vulnerability Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the MediaInputPort class in Mozilla Firefox before 31.0 and Thunderbird before 31.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) by leveraging incorrect Web Audio control-message ordering.

Affected Platforms (CPE)

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Mozilla

Firefox

<= 30.0

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Mozilla

Thunderbird

<= 24.7

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Mozilla

Thunderbird

= 24.0

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Mozilla

Thunderbird

= 24.0.1

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Mozilla

Thunderbird

= 24.1

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Mozilla

Thunderbird

= 24.1.1

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Mozilla

Thunderbird

= 24.2

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Mozilla

Thunderbird

= 24.3

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Mozilla

Thunderbird

= 24.4

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Mozilla

Thunderbird

= 24.5

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Mozilla

Thunderbird

= 24.6

References & Advisories

🔗 http://secunia.com/advisories/59760

🔗 http://secunia.com/advisories/60628

🔗 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-58.html

🔗 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html

🔗 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030619

🔗 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030620

🔗 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1020411

🔗 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01

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