CVE-2012-0472 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Seamonkey

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer5 documents5 sources
Severity
9.3CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.5%
top 18.68%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Mozilla SeamonkeyMozilla FirefoxMozilla Thunderbird+1 more
Timeline
PublishedApr 25
Latest updateMay 4

Description

The cairo-dwrite implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.9, when certain Windows Vista and Windows 7 configurations are used, does not properly restrict font-rendering attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 10.0

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox17 versions+16
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird14 versions+13
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird_esr5 versions+4
▶NVDmozilla/seamonkey2.9+64

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-555h-vj7w-v68w: The cairo-dwrite implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4↗2022-05-04
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CVEList
CVE-2012-0472: The cairo-dwrite implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4↗2012-04-25
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
Mozilla: Potential memory corruption during font rendering using cairo-dwrite (MFSA 2012-25)↗2012-04-24
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2012-0472 Mozilla: Potential memory corruption during font rendering using cairo-dwrite (MFSA 2012-25)↗2012-04-22
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CVE-2012-0472 — Mozilla Seamonkey vulnerability | cvebase