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MFSA2012-105 Firefox: Use-after-free and buffer overflow issues found using Address Sanitizer (CVE-2012-4214)

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MFSA2012-105 Firefox: Use-after-free and buffer overflow issues found using Address Sanitizer (CVE-2012-4214)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/21/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/14/2013
Modified
08/17/2020

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-2012-5840.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-10_0_11
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-17_0

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