Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2012-0444
Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.26 and 4.x through 9.0, Thunderbird before 3.1.18 and 5.0 through 9.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.7 do not properly initialize nsChildView data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Ogg Vorbis file.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.078 (94.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.079 · newest: 0.078 · change: -0.001
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 10.04, 10.10, 11.04
- Debian Linux — versions 5.0, 6.0
- openSUSE — versions 11.4
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop — versions 10, 11
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server — versions 10, 11
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit — versions 10, 11
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/48043 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/48095 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2402 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/51753 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14464 (signature, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2400 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-07.html (Vendor Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00003.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2406 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)