CVE-2012-3971 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer7 documents6 sources
Severity
10.0CRITICALNVD
EPSS
3.1%
top 13.11%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla Thunderbird
Timeline
PublishedAug 29
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) Graphite 2, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Thunderbird before 15.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.12, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via vectors related to the (1) Silf::readClassMap and (2) Pass::readPass functions.

CVSS vector

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

Affected Packages3 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox14.0+130
▶NVDmozilla/seamonkey2.11+32
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird14.0+99

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-88cw-97jp-xpvg: Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) Graphite 2, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 15↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2012-3971: Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) Graphite 2, as used 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: Graphite 2 memory corruption (MFSA 2012-64)↗2012-08-28
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2012-3971 Mozilla: Graphite 2 memory corruption (MFSA 2012-64)↗2012-08-27
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CVE-2012-3971 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase