Vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2012-1962
Use-after-free vulnerability in the JSDependentString::undepend function in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, Thunderbird 5.0 through 13.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving strings with multiple dependencies.
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: 0.056 (92.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 92.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.056 · newest: 0.056 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox — versions 4.0, 4.0.1, 5.0
- Mozilla Seamonkey — versions 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2
- Mozilla Thunderbird — versions 5.0, 6.0, 6.0.1
- Mozilla Thunderbird Esr — versions 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/49977 (third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/49992 (third-party-advisory)
- osvdb.org/84004 (vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1088.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/54575 (vdb-entry)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1509-2 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16729 (signature, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/49979 (third-party-advisory)