Published: 29/08/2012 Updated: 28/08/2020

CVSS v2 Base Score: 10 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 890

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHTMLEditor::CollapseAdjacentTextNodes function in Mozilla Firefox prior to 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x prior to 10.0.7, Thunderbird prior to 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x prior to 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey prior to 2.12 allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

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mozilla firefox
mozilla firefox esr
mozilla seamonkey
mozilla thunderbird
mozilla thunderbird esr
opensuse opensuse 12.2
suse linux enterprise desktop 10
suse linux enterprise desktop 11
suse linux enterprise server 10
suse linux enterprise server 11
suse linux enterprise software development kit 11
redhat enterprise linux desktop 5.0
redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0
redhat enterprise linux eus 6.3
redhat enterprise linux server 5.0
redhat enterprise linux server 6.0
redhat enterprise linux server eus 6.3
redhat enterprise linux workstation 5.0
redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0
canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
canonical ubuntu linux 11.04
canonical ubuntu linux 11.10
canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
debian debian linux 6.0
debian debian linux 7.0

Synopsis Critical: firefox security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Critical Topic Updated firefox packages that fix multiple security issues are nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having criticalsecurity impact Common Vulne ...

Synopsis Critical: thunderbird security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Critical Topic An updated thunderbird package that fixes multiple security issues is nowavailable for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having criticalsecurity impact C ...

USN-1548-1 introduced a regression in Firefox ...

Multiple security issues were fixed in Thunderbird ...

Multiple security issues were fixed in Firefox ...

USN-1551-1 introduced regressions in Thunderbird ...

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Icedove, Debian's version of the Mozilla Thunderbird mail and news client This includes several instances of use-after-free and buffer overflow issues The reported vulnerabilities could lead to the execution of arbitrary code, and additionally to the bypass of content-loading restrictions via the locatio ...

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Iceweasel, a web browser based on Firefox The included XULRunner library provides rendering services for several other applications included in Debian The reported vulnerabilities could lead to the execution of arbitrary code or the bypass of content-loading restrictions via the location object For ...

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Iceape, an internet suite based on Seamonkey The reported vulnerabilities could lead to the execution of arbitrary code or the bypass of content-loading restrictions via the location object For the stable distribution (squeeze), these problems have been fixed in version 2011-15 For the testing di ...

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2012-58 Use-after-free issues found using Address Sanitizer Announced August 28, 2012 Reporter Abhishek Arya Impact Critical Products Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Thunderb ...

CWE-416 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-58.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778428 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2553 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2556 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1 http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2554 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1211.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1210.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55314 http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17017 https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012:1210 https://usn.ubuntu.com/1548-2/

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