Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2012-3960
Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozSpellChecker::SetCurrentDictionary function in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.
Vulnerability class: Use-After-Free
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: 0.054 (92.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.054 · newest: 0.054 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Mozilla Thunderbird Esr
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 10.04, 11.04, 11.10
- openSUSE — versions 12.2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 5.0, 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus — versions 6.3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 5.0, 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Eus — versions 6.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1211.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16853 (signature, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-58.html (Vendor Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1210.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)