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MFSA2012-85 Firefox: Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and out of bounds read issues found using Address Sanitizer (CVE-2012-4180)

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MFSA2012-85 Firefox: Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and out of bounds read issues found using Address Sanitizer (CVE-2012-4180)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
10/10/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/16/2012
Modified
08/12/2020

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsHTMLEditor::IsPrevCharInNodeWhitespace function 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 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-10_0_8
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-16_0

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