CVE-2012-3990

CWE-416 — Use After Free7 documents6 sources
Severity
9.3CRITICAL
EPSS
6.1%
top 9.25%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
13
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla Thunderbird+10 more
Timeline
PublishedOct 10
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the IME State Manager implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, related to the nsIContent::GetNameSpaceID function.

CVSS vector

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

Affected Packages10 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 10.0.8+1
▶NVDmozilla/seamonkey< 2.13

Also affects: Debian Linux 6.0, Ubuntu Linux 10.04, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04, Enterprise Linux 6.3

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-6h5m-g68r-8p3j: Use-after-free vulnerability in the IME State Manager implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 16↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2012-3990: Use-after-free vulnerability in the IME State Manager implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 16↗2012-10-10
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2012-10-12
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free in the IME State Manager (MFSA 2012-87)↗2012-10-09
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2012-10-09
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2012-3990 Mozilla: Use-after-free in the IME State Manager (MFSA 2012-87)↗2012-10-06
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