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MFSA2012-57 SeaMonkey: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:15.0/ rv:10.0.7) (CVE-2012-1971)

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MFSA2012-57 SeaMonkey: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:15.0/ rv:10.0.7) (CVE-2012-1971)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/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

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Thunderbird before 15.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to garbage collection after certain MethodJIT execution, and unknown other vectors.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-seamonkey-upgrade-2_12_0

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