CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4218
10.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-11-21
- 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 BuildTextRunsScanner::BreakSink::SetBreaks function in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.
Affected configurations
• mozilla firefox (< 17.0)
• mozilla seamonkey (< 2.14)
• mozilla thunderbird (< 17.0)
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 11.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 12.10
• 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 11
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://secunia.com/advisories/51369 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51370 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51381 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51434 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51439 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51440 Broken Link
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-105.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56640 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=767765 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16885 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://secunia.com/advisories/51369 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51370 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51381 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51434 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51439 Broken Link
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51440 Broken Link
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-105.html Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56640 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=767765 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16885 Third Party Advisory