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MFSA2012-106 Thunderbird: Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer (CVE-2012-5838)

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MFSA2012-106 Thunderbird: Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer (CVE-2012-5838)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
11/21/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
11/14/2013
Modified
08/17/2020

Description

The copyTexImage2D implementation in the WebGL subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via large image dimensions.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-thunderbird-esr-upgrade-10_0_11
  • mozilla-thunderbird-upgrade-17_0

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