CVE-2012-5840

 

Published at: - 21-11-2012 01:55

Last modified: - 24-09-2022 03:03

Total changes: - 2

Description

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.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

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

 

Verification logic

 

Reference

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=805287
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-105.html
• openSUSE-SU-2012:1586-Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• USN-1638-1-Third Party Advisory
• openSUSE-SU-2012:1583-Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• openSUSE-SU-2012:1585-Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• USN-1638-2-Third Party Advisory
• USN-1638-3-Third Party Advisory
• RHSA-2012:1482-Third Party Advisory
• RHSA-2012:1483-Third Party Advisory
• SUSE-SU-2012:1592-Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• USN-1636-1-Third Party Advisory
• http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml
• openSUSE-SU-2013:0175-Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• 56635-Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• 87606-Broken Link, Third Party Advisory
• 51434-Third Party Advisory
• 51381-Third Party Advisory
• 51360-Third Party Advisory
• 51369-Third Party Advisory
• 51359-Third Party Advisory
• 51440-Third Party Advisory
• 51439-Third Party Advisory
• MDVSA-2012:173-Third Party Advisory
• 51370-Third Party Advisory
• mozilla-prepareeditor-code-exec(80190)-Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16904-Third Party Advisory

 

Keywords

NVD

 

CVE-2012-5840

 

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Common vulnerabilities & exposures

 

CVSS

 

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