CVE-2012-3988

Mozilla Firefox < 16.0 - Use-After-Free via Full-Screen Mode and History Navigation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving use of mozRequestFullScreen to enter full-screen mode, and use of the history.back method for backwards history navigation.

References (16)

Core 16
Core References
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/50904
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/50984
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/50935
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79149
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/50856
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/50892
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html
Broken Link vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/86109
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/50936
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/55318
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725770
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:163
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1

Scores

EPSS 0.0399
EPSS Percentile 88.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (20)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 10.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 11.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 11.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
mozilla/firefox < 10.0.8
mozilla/seamonkey < 2.13
mozilla/thunderbird < 16.0
mozilla/thunderbird_esr < 10.0.8
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 5.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 6.0
... and 10 more
Published Oct 10, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026