CVE-2012-1947

HIGH

Description

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.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00015.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0710.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0715.html

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2488

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2489

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:088

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

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

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16911

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2012-06-05

Updated: 2018-01-05

Type: CWE-119

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Impact Score: 10

Exploitability Score: 8.6

Severity: HIGH