CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4214
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-11-21
- 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-416
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-2012-5840.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 17.0)
• mozilla firefox (>= 10.0 < 10.0.11)
• mozilla seamonkey (< 2.14)
• mozilla thunderbird (< 17.0)
• mozilla thunderbird esr (>= 10.0 < 10.0.11)
• opensuse opensuse 11.4
• opensuse opensuse 12.1
• 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 10
• 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 workstation 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1482.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1483.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51359 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51360 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51369 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51370 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51381 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51434 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51439 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51440 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:173 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-105.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56628 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795804 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80187 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16884 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1482.html Third Party Advisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1483.html Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51359 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51360 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51369 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51370 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51381 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51434 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51439 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51440 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:173 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-105.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56628 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795804 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80187 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16884 Third Party Advisory