CVE-2012-4187

Mozilla Firefox < 16.0 - Remote Code Execution via Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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 do not properly manage a certain insPos variable, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and assertion failure) via unspecified vectors.

References (15)

Core 15
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 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 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
Mailing List, 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, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56125
Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787493
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1

Scores

EPSS 0.2001
EPSS Percentile 95.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
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