CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4187
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-10-10
- 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
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly manage a certain insPos variable, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and assertion failure) via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 10.0.8)
• mozilla thunderbird esr (< 10.0.8)
• mozilla firefox (< 16.0)
• mozilla thunderbird (< 16.0)
• mozilla seamonkey (< 2.13)
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• 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 workstation 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0
• suse linux enterprise desktop 10
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse linux enterprise sdk 10
• suse linux enterprise server 10
• suse linux enterprise server 11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50856 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50892 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50904 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50935 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50936 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50984 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55318 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:163 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-86.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56125 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787493 Issue Tracking
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16425 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50856 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50892 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50904 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50935 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50936 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50984 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55318 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:163 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-86.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56125 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787493 Issue Tracking
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16425 Third Party Advisory