CVE-2012-5840

2012-11-2100:00:00

ubuntu.com

CVSS2

9.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

0.018

Percentile

88.3%

JSON

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.

Notes

Author	Note
jdstrand	xulrunner-1.9.2 unmaintained upstream (see README.mozilla for details)

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu10.04noarchfirefox< 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.10.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu11.10noarchfirefox< 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.11.10.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu12.04noarchfirefox< 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu12.10noarchfirefox< 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.10.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu10.04noarchthunderbird< 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.10.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu11.10noarchthunderbird< 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.11.10.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu12.04noarchthunderbird< 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu12.10noarchthunderbird< 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.10.1UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	10.04	noarch	firefox	< 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.10.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	11.10	noarch	firefox	< 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.11.10.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	12.04	noarch	firefox	< 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	12.10	noarch	firefox	< 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.10.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	10.04	noarch	thunderbird	< 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.10.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	11.10	noarch	thunderbird	< 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.11.10.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	12.04	noarch	thunderbird	< 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	12.10	noarch	thunderbird	< 17.0+build2-0ubuntu0.12.10.1	UNKNOWN