CVE-2012-4187

CWE-119 — Buffer Overflow7 documents6 sources
Severity
9.3CRITICAL
EPSS
20.0%
top 4.53%
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

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 do not properly manage a certain insPos variable, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and assertion failure) 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-jmrq-x79h-whx2: Mozilla Firefox before 16↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2012-4187: Mozilla Firefox before 16↗2012-10-10
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2012-10-12
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2012-10-09
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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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💬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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CVE-2012-4187 (CRITICAL CVSS 9.3) | Mozilla Firefox before 16.0 | cvebase.io