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MFSA2012-61 Thunderbird: Memory corruption with bitmap format images with negative height (CVE-2012-3966)

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MFSA2012-61 Thunderbird: Memory corruption with bitmap format images with negative height (CVE-2012-3966)

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

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 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a negative height value in a BMP image within a .ICO file, related to (1) improper handling of the transparency bitmask by the nsICODecoder component and (2) improper processing of the alpha channel by the nsBMPDecoder component.

Solution(s)

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

References

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