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MFSA2012-12 SeaMonkey: Use-after-free in shlwapi.dll (CVE-2012-0454)

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MFSA2012-12 SeaMonkey: Use-after-free in shlwapi.dll (CVE-2012-0454)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/14/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
03/23/2012
Modified
04/05/2017

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 on 32-bit Windows 7 platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving use of the file-open dialog in a child window, related to the IUnknown_QueryService function in the Windows shlwapi.dll library.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-seamonkey-upgrade-2_8_0

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