CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-3960
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-08-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozSpellChecker::SetCurrentDictionary function in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 15.0)
• mozilla firefox (>= 10.0 < 10.0.7)
• mozilla seamonkey (< 2.12)
• mozilla thunderbird (< 15.0)
• mozilla thunderbird esr (>= 10.0 < 10.0.7)
• opensuse opensuse 12.2
• suse linux enterprise desktop 10
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise server 10
• suse linux enterprise server 11
• suse linux enterprise software development kit 11
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux eus 6.3
• redhat enterprise linux server 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux server eus 6.3
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1210.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1211.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-58.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55325 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771976 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16853 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1210.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1211.html Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-58.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55325 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771976 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16853 Third Party Advisory