CVE-2012-3957 — Out-of-bounds Write in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds WriteCWE-416 — Use After Free6 documents5 sources
Severity
10.0CRITICALNVD
EPSS
3.0%
top 13.50%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
14
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla Thunderbird+11 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 29
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsBlockFrame::MarkLineDirty function in 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 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

CVSS vector

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

Affected Packages11 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox10.0 — 10.0.7+1
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird_esr10.0 — 10.0.7
▶NVDmozilla/seamonkey< 2.12

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 10.04, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04, Enterprise Linux 6.3

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-52qm-v8p3-wc8p: Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsBlockFrame::MarkLineDirty function in Mozilla Firefox before 15↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2012-3957: Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsBlockFrame::MarkLineDirty function in Mozilla Firefox before 15↗2012-08-29
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2012-08-30
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2012-08-29
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Multiple Use-after-free issues (MFSA 2012-58)↗2012-08-28
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