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MFSA2012-86 Firefox: Heap memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer (CVE-2012-4187)

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MFSA2012-86 Firefox: Heap memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer (CVE-2012-4187)

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

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 do not properly manage a certain insPos variable, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and assertion failure) via unspecified vectors.

Solution(s)

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

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