CVE-2012-3969 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-189CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-416 — Use After Free7 documents6 sources
Severity
9.3CRITICALNVD
EPSS
5.1%
top 10.19%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla Thunderbird+1 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 29
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Integer overflow in the nsSVGFEMorphologyElement::Filter 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 a crafted SVG filter that triggers an incorrect sum calculation, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVSS vector

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

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox14.0+134
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird14.0+99
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird_esr7 versions+6
▶NVDmozilla/seamonkey2.11+32

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-h64v-9hp2-5crq: Integer overflow in the nsSVGFEMorphologyElement::Filter function in Mozilla Firefox before 15↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2012-3969: Integer overflow in the nsSVGFEMorphologyElement::Filter 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: SVG buffer overflow and use-after-free issues (MFSA 2012-63)↗2012-08-28
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2012-3969 CVE-2012-3970 Mozilla: SVG buffer overflow and use-after-free issues (MFSA 2012-63)↗2012-08-27
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CVE-2012-3969 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase