CVE-2012-5840

Description

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-2012-4214.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16904

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80190

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

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

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

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56635

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

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

http://secunia.com/advisories/51440

http://secunia.com/advisories/51439

http://secunia.com/advisories/51434

http://secunia.com/advisories/51381

http://secunia.com/advisories/51370

http://secunia.com/advisories/51369

http://secunia.com/advisories/51360

http://secunia.com/advisories/51359

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3