CVE-2012-4188 — 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
9.3CRITICALNVD
EPSS
52.5%
top 2.06%
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

Heap-based buffer overflow in the Convolve3x3 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 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: Debian Linux 6.0, Ubuntu Linux 10.04, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04, Enterprise Linux 6.3

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-2vjp-w357-hqrg: Heap-based buffer overflow in the Convolve3x3 function in Mozilla Firefox before 16↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2012-4188: Heap-based buffer overflow in the Convolve3x3 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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CVE-2012-4188 — Mozilla Firefox vulnerability | cvebase