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FKIE_CVE-2014-1500

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-03-19 10:55 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:05
Severity
Summary
Mozilla Firefox before 28.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.25 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and application hang) via onbeforeunload events that trigger background JavaScript execution.
References
security@mozilla.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00016.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00022.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00016.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-20.htmlVendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlThird Party Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956524Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
security@mozilla.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00016.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00017.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/msg00022.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00016.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2014/mfsa2014-20.htmlVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.htmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=956524Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-01Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
opensuse opensuse 13.1
opensuse_project opensuse 11.4
opensuse_project opensuse 12.3
oracle solaris 11.3
mozilla firefox *
mozilla seamonkey *
suse linux_enterprise_desktop 11
suse linux_enterprise_server 11
suse linux_enterprise_server 11
suse linux_enterprise_software_development_kit 11
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