CVE-2013-1690

Summary

CVE-2013-1690 is a vulnerability affecting Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 22.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.7, Thunderbird before 17.0.7, and Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.7. The issue involves improper handling of onreadystatechange events during page reloading. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by creating a malicious website that triggers an application crash due to an attempt to execute data at an unmapped memory location. In severe cases, arbitrary code execution may be possible, leading to denial-of-service attacks or potential data compromise. Users are advised to update their browsers to mitigate this risk.

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