CVE-2014-1489: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox before 27.0 does not properly restrict access to about:home buttons by script on other pages, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (session restore) via a crafted web site.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 12.10 only; version 13.10 only
• Mozilla Firefox: up to and including 26.0; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; …
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only
• Opensuse Project Opensuse: version 12.3 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 11.3 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: version 11 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 11 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: version 11 only

Published 2014-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.