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CVE-2012-4179

Date: October 10, 2012

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHTMLCSSUtils::CreateCSSPropertyTxn function 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 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

Severity Score

8.1

Related Resources (23)

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51181

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4179

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16882

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2572

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/50892

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4179

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2565

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/55318

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/50984

Url: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-85.html

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2569

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-4179

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/50856

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79157

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/50904

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/50935

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/50936

Url: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785574

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:163

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-4179

Severity Score

8.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

Use After Free

CWE-416

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.1
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	9.3
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2012-4179

Date: October 10, 2012

Severity Score

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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