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Cent OS: CVE-2012-3988: CESA-2012:1351 (thunderbird)

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Cent OS: CVE-2012-3988: CESA-2012:1351 (thunderbird)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/10/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
12/01/2016
Modified
07/04/2017

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving use of mozRequestFullScreen to enter full-screen mode, and use of the history.back method for backwards history navigation.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-firefox
  • centos-upgrade-thunderbird
  • centos-upgrade-xulrunner
  • centos-upgrade-xulrunner-devel

References

  • MDVSA-2012:163
  • CVE-2012-3988
  • RHSA-2012:1351
  • SUSE-SU-2012:1351
  • USN-1600-1
  • USN-1611-1
  • firefox-full-screen-code-exec(79149)
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