Published: 21/11/2012 Updated: 21/08/2020

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 BuildTextRunsScanner::BreakSink::SetBreaks function in Mozilla Firefox prior to 17.0, Thunderbird prior to 17.0, and SeaMonkey prior to 2.14 allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

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canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
canonical ubuntu linux 11.10
canonical ubuntu linux 12.04
canonical ubuntu linux 12.10
opensuse opensuse 11.4
opensuse opensuse 12.1
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

This update provides compatible ubufox packages for the latest Firefox ...

Several security issues were fixed in Firefox ...

Regressions were introduced in the last Firefox update ...

Multiple security issues were fixed in Thunderbird ...

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2012-105 Use-after-free and buffer overflow issues found using Address Sanitizer Announced November 20, 2012 Reporter Abhishek Arya Impact Critical Products Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey ...

CWE-416 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-105.html https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767765 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56640 http://secunia.com/advisories/51434 http://secunia.com/advisories/51381 http://secunia.com/advisories/51369 http://secunia.com/advisories/51440 http://secunia.com/advisories/51439 http://secunia.com/advisories/51370 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16885 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/1638-2/

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