CVEvulnerability

CVE-2012-1971

9.3 HIGH Published 2012-08-29 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2012-08-29
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Thunderbird before 15.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to garbage collection after certain MethodJIT execution, and unknown other vectors.

Affected configurations

• mozilla firefox (<= 14.0) • mozilla firefox 1.0 • mozilla firefox 1.0.1 • mozilla firefox 1.0.2 • mozilla firefox 1.0.3 • mozilla firefox 1.0.4 • mozilla firefox 1.0.5 • mozilla firefox 1.0.6 • mozilla firefox 1.0.7 • mozilla firefox 1.0.8 • mozilla firefox 1.4.1 • mozilla firefox 1.5 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.1 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.2 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.3 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.4 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.5 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.6 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.7 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.8 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.9 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.10 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.11 • mozilla firefox 1.5.0.12 • mozilla firefox 1.5.1 • mozilla firefox 1.5.2 • mozilla firefox 1.5.3 • mozilla firefox 1.5.4 • mozilla firefox 1.5.5 • mozilla firefox 1.5.6 • mozilla firefox 1.5.7 • mozilla firefox 1.5.8 • mozilla firefox 1.8 • mozilla firefox 2.0 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.1 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.2 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.3 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.4 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.5 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.6 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.7 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.8 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.9 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.10 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.11 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.12 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.13 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.14 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.15 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.16 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.17 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.18 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.19 • mozilla firefox 2.0.0.20 • mozilla firefox 3.0 • mozilla firefox 3.0.1 • mozilla firefox 3.0.2 • mozilla firefox 3.0.3 • mozilla firefox 3.0.4 • mozilla firefox 3.0.5 … and 204 more

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html lists.opensuse.org
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-57.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1 www.ubuntu.com
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2 www.ubuntu.com
http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf www.xerox.com
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719750 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730208 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732870 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748119 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749039 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752038 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752087 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753162 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754150 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754242 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755916 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765936 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773097 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779849 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780712 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16841 oval.cisecurity.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html lists.opensuse.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html lists.opensuse.org
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-57.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1 www.ubuntu.com
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2 www.ubuntu.com
http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf www.xerox.com
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719750 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730208 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732870 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748119 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749039 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752038 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752087 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753162 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754150 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754242 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755916 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765936 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773097 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779849 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780712 bugzilla.mozilla.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16841 oval.cisecurity.org