CVE-2012-3989
published 2012-10-10CVE-2012-3989: Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Thunderbird before 16.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly perform a cast of an unspecified variable during use of the…
PriorityP340critical9.3CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCCICAC
EPSS
3.46%
87.7th percentile
Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Thunderbird before 16.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly perform a cast of an unspecified variable during use of the instanceof operator on a JavaScript object, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via a crafted web site.
Affected
11 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| mozilla | firefox | < 16.0 | 16.0 |
| mozilla | seamonkey | < 2.13 | 2.13 |
| mozilla | thunderbird | < 16.0 | 16.0 |
| suse | linux_enterprise_desktop | — | — |
| suse | linux_enterprise_desktop | — | — |
| suse | linux_enterprise_server | — | — |
| suse | linux_enterprise_server | — | — |
CVSS provenance
nvdv2.09.3CRITICALAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
vendor_redhat9.3CRITICAL
vendor_ubuntu9.3CRITICAL
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GHSA
GHSA-g6fr-f3gf-jvqr: Mozilla Firefox before 16
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-13
CVE-2012-3989 [HIGH] CWE-119 GHSA-g6fr-f3gf-jvqr: Mozilla Firefox before 16
Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Thunderbird before 16.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly perform a cast of an unspecified variable during use of the instanceof operator on a JavaScript object, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via a crafted web site.
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2012-10-12·CVSS 9.3
CVE-2012-3982 [CRITICAL] Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Title: Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Summary: Several security issues were fixed in Thunderbird.
Henrik Skupin, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, Soroush Dalili and others
discovered several memory corruption flaws in Thunderbird. If a user were
tricked into opening a malicious website and had JavaScript enabled, an
attacker could exploit these to execute arbitrary JavaScript code within
the context of another website or arbitrary code as the user invoking the
program. (CVE-2012-3982, CVE-2012-3983, CVE-2012-3988, CVE-2012-3989,
CVE-2012-4191)
David Bloom and Jordi Chancel discovered that Thunderbird did not always
properly handle the element. If a user were tricked into opening a
malicious website and had JavaScript enabled, a remote attacker could
exploit this to conduct URL spoofing an
Red Hat
Mozilla: Crash with invalid cast when using instanceof operator (MFSA 2012-80)
vendor_redhat·2012-10-09·CVSS 9.3
CVE-2012-3989 [CRITICAL] Mozilla: Crash with invalid cast when using instanceof operator (MFSA 2012-80)
Mozilla: Crash with invalid cast when using instanceof operator (MFSA 2012-80)
Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Thunderbird before 16.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly perform a cast of an unspecified variable during use of the instanceof operator on a JavaScript object, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via a crafted web site.
Statement: Not Vulnerable. This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5) - Not affected
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2012-10-09·CVSS 9.3
CVE-2012-3983 [CRITICAL] Firefox vulnerabilities
Title: Firefox vulnerabilities
Summary: Multiple security issues were fixed in Firefox.
Henrik Skupin, Jesse Ruderman, Christian Holler, Soroush Dalili and others
discovered several memory corruption flaws in Firefox. If a user were
tricked into opening a specially crafted web page, a remote attacker could
cause Firefox to crash or potentially execute arbitrary code as the user
invoking the program. (CVE-2012-3982, CVE-2012-3983, CVE-2012-3988,
CVE-2012-3989)
David Bloom and Jordi Chancel discovered that Firefox did not always
properly handle the element. A remote attacker could exploit this
to conduct URL spoofing and clickjacking attacks. (CVE-2012-3984)
Collin Jackson discovered that Firefox did not properly follow the HTML5
specification for document.domain behavior. A remote attac
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.htmlhttp://osvdb.org/86097http://secunia.com/advisories/50856http://secunia.com/advisories/50892http://secunia.com/advisories/50904http://secunia.com/advisories/50935http://secunia.com/advisories/50984http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-80.htmlhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783867https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16814http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.htmlhttp://osvdb.org/86097http://secunia.com/advisories/50856http://secunia.com/advisories/50892http://secunia.com/advisories/50904http://secunia.com/advisories/50935http://secunia.com/advisories/50984http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-80.htmlhttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783867https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16814
2012-10-10
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