National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-1947

Overview

Heap-based buffer overflow in the utf16_to_isolatin1 function in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 12.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, Thunderbird 5.0 through 12.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger a character-set conversion failure.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744541

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744541

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-40.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-40.html