National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-0452

Overview

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 10.x before 10.0.1, Thunderbird 10.x before 10.0.1, and SeaMonkey 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger failure of an nsXBLDocumentInfo::ReadPrototypeBindings function call, related to the cycle collector's access to a hash table containing a stale XBL binding.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724284

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724284

External Source: UBUNTU

Name: USN-1360-1

Hyperlink:http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1360-1

External Source: BID

Name: 51975

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51975

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-10.html

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-10.html

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2012:018

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:018

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2012:017

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:017

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 49055

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/49055

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15017

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15017

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2012:0261

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00013.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:0258

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00012.html