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Medium severity4.3NVD Advisory· Published Apr 7, 2021· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2013-1055

CVE-2013-1055

Description

The unity-firefox-extension package could be tricked into dropping a C callback which was still in use, which Firefox would then free, causing Firefox to crash. This could be achieved by adding an action to the launcher and updating it with new callbacks until the libunity-webapps rate limit was hit. Fixed in 3.0.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1 of unity-firefox-extension and in all versions of libunity-webapps by shipping an empty unity-firefox-extension package, thus disabling the extension entirely and invalidating the attack against the libunity-webapps package.

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Affected products

7
  • Canonical/unity-firefox-extension
    cpe:2.3:a:canonical:unity-firefox-extension:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
    Range: <3.0.0\+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1
  • Canonical/Ubuntu Linux2 versions
    cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
    • cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • Ubuntu/libunity-webappsllm-create
    Range: all versions
  • Ubuntu/unity-firefox-extensionllm-fuzzy
    Range: before 3.0.0+14.04.20140416-0ubuntu1.14.04.1
  • Canonical/libunity-webappsv5
    Range: 2.5.0
  • Canonical/unity-firefox-extensionv5
    Range: 3.0.0

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