CVE-2012-5840
HIGH severity · CVSS 9.3 · Use-after-free
9.3CVSS HIGH
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditorState::PrepareEditor function in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4214.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)6%
AV:N/AC:M/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://osvdb.org/87606Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1482.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1483.htmlAdvisory