CVE-2012-5830 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-416 — Use After FreeCWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer7 documents6 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.9%
top 24.91%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
14
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla SeamonkeyMozilla Thunderbird+11 more
Timeline
PublishedNov 21
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 on Mac OS X allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTML document.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages11 packages

▶NVDmozilla/firefox10.0 — 10.0.11+1
▶NVDmozilla/thunderbird_esr10.0 — 10.0.11
▶NVDmozilla/seamonkey< 2.14
▶NVDopensuse/opensuse11.4, 12.1, 12.2+2

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10, Enterprise Linux 6.3

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-8g8g-2rjp-3346: Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 17↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2012-5830: Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 17↗2012-11-21
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2012-11-21
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Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2012-11-21
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2012-106)↗2012-11-20
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2012-5830 CVE-2012-5833 CVE-2012-5835 Mozilla: Use-after-free, buffer overflow, and memory corruption issues found using Address Sanitizer (MFSA 2012-106)↗2012-11-17
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