CVE-2012-4190 — 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 Buffer4 documents4 sources
Severity
10.0CRITICALNVD
EPSS
8.5%
top 7.60%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Mozilla FirefoxCyanogenmod
Timeline
PublishedOct 12
Latest updateMay 17

Description

The FT2FontEntry::CreateFontEntry function in FreeType, as used in the Android build of Mozilla Firefox before 16.0.1 on CyanogenMod 10, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

CVSS vector

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

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox16.0+151

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-vp62-hh5v-fxcw: The FT2FontEntry::CreateFontEntry function in FreeType, as used in the Android build of Mozilla Firefox before 16↗2022-05-17
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
freetype: memory corruption and application crash (reported against firefox on android)↗2012-10-11
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2012-4190 freetype: memory corruption and application crash (reported against firefox on android)↗2012-11-02
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