CVE-2012-5840

Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey Use-After-Free

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditorState::PrepareEditor function in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4214.

References (27)

Core 27
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/51370
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/87606
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1483.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80190
Broken Link x_refsource_confirm
http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1482.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/51434
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/51439
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/51440
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/51359
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:173
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=805287
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/51381
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56635
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/51369
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/51360

Scores

EPSS 0.0234
EPSS Percentile 85.1%

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (24)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 10.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 11.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.10
mozilla/firefox < 10.0.11
mozilla/seamonkey < 2.14
mozilla/thunderbird < 17.0
mozilla/thunderbird_esr < 10.0.11
opensuse/opensuse 11.4
opensuse/opensuse 12.1
... and 14 more
Published Nov 21, 2012
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026