CVE-2012-3970 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-399CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-416 — Use After Free8 documents6 sources
Severity
10.0CRITICALNVD
EPSS
2.7%
top 13.99%
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

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTArray_base::Length 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 or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via vectors involving movement of a requiredFeatures attribute from one SVG document to another.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:C/I:C/A:CExploitability: 10.0 | 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-9g4c-vw2f-x5wq: Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTArray_base::Length function in Mozilla Firefox before 15↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2012-3970: Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTArray_base::Length 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

2
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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Bugzilla
CVE-2011-3970 libxslt: Out-of-bounds read when parsing certain patterns↗2012-02-09
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CVE-2012-3970 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase