CVE-2012-3988
Mozilla Firefox < 16.0 - Use-After-Free via Full-Screen Mode and History Navigation
Title source: llmDescription
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
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16334
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
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-79.html
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