CVE-2012-1940

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Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsFrameList::FirstChild function in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 12.0, Firefox ESR 10

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsFrameList::FirstChild function in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 12.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, Thunderbird 5.0 through 12.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) by changing the size of a container of absolutely positioned elements in a column.

HIGH · CVSS 9.3 EPSS 0.03035

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CVSS base score ≥ 7.0

Sigma rules1 YARA rules0

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Affected Products & Versions

mozilla firefoxall versions
mozilla seamonkey<= 2.9
mozilla seamonkeyall versions

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producthighSQLite Firefox Profile Data DB Access

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Scoring & Timeline

9.3

HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · cve@mitre.org

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v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Published to NVD05 Jun 2012 · 11:55 PM

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Vendor Advisories

suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10218-1
suse-csafopenSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1
usnUSN-1463-6
usnUSN-1463-4
Show all 9 vendor advisoriesusnUSN-1463-1
rhsaRHSA-2012:0715Critical
rhsaRHSA-2012:0710Critical
mozilla-mfsaMFSA2012-40

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References & Sources

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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00015.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0710.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0715.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2488

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2489

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http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2499

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:088

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-40.htmlVendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53794

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747688

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17054

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