CVE-2012-4218
HIGH severity · CVSS 10 · Use-after-free
10CVSS HIGH
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in the BuildTextRunsScanner::BreakSink::SetBreaks function in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)6%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.htmlAdvisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51369
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51370
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51381