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MFSA2012-106 Firefox: Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer (CVE-2012-5835)

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MFSA2012-106 Firefox: Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer (CVE-2012-5835)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/21/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/14/2013
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

Integer overflow in the WebGL subsystem 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 (invalid write operation) via crafted data.

Solution(s)

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

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