CVE-2012-5840
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-2012-4214.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 9.3 Critical
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2012-11-21
- Last modified
- 2024-08-06
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Affected products
- Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
- Firefox (Mozilla)
- Seamonkey (Mozilla)
- Thunderbird (Mozilla)
- Thunderbird Esr (Mozilla)
- Opensuse (Opensuse)
- Enterprise Linux Desktop (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux Eus (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux Server (Redhat)
- Enterprise Linux Workstation (Redhat)
- Linux Enterprise Desktop (Suse)
- Linux Enterprise Server (Suse)
- Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit (Suse)
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html
- http://osvdb.org/87606
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1482.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1483.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51359
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51360
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51369
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51370
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51381
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51434
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51439
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51440
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:173
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-105.html
- http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56635
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=805287
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80190
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16904
