CVE-2012-4185

CWE-119 — Buffer Overflow7 documents6 sources
Severity
9.3CRITICAL
EPSS
5.2%
top 10.05%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
12
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla Thunderbird+9 more
Timeline
PublishedOct 10
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Buffer overflow in the nsCharTraits::length function 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 or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

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: Ubuntu Linux 10.04, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04, Enterprise Linux 6.3

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-fvw4-65jg-8pj2: Buffer overflow in the nsCharTraits::length function in Mozilla Firefox before 16↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2012-4185: Buffer overflow in the nsCharTraits::length function 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: Heap memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2012-86)↗2012-10-09
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2012-10-09
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2012-4185 CVE-2012-4186 CVE-2012-4187 CVE-2012-4188 Mozilla: Heap memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2012-86)↗2012-10-06
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