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MFSA2012-58 Firefox: Use-after-free issues found using Address Sanitizer (CVE-2012-3960)

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MFSA2012-58 Firefox: Use-after-free issues found using Address Sanitizer (CVE-2012-3960)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/29/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2012
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the mozSpellChecker::SetCurrentDictionary function in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-10_0_7
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-15_0

References

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