CVE-2012-1940

critical

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsFrameList::FirstChild function in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 12.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, Thunderbird 5.0 through 12.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) by changing the size of a container of absolutely positioned elements in a column.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17054

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747688

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53794

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-40.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:088

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2499

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2489

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2488

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0715.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0710.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00015.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-06-05

Updated: 2024-11-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical