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CVE-2012-4214

Date: November 21, 2012

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-2012-5840.

Severity Score

8.1

Related Resources (30)

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3

Url: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795804

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51370

Url: https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16884

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51359

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51434

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1

Url: http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51439

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1482.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:173

Url: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80187

Url: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-105.html

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2012-4214

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-4214

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51360

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51381

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4214

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51440

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/51369

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html

Url: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1483.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56628

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-4214

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-2012-4214

Date: November 21, 2012

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