CVE-2012-1972

critical

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHTMLEditor::CollapseAdjacentTextNodes function in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

References

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https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17017

http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55314

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2556

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2554

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2553

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1211.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1210.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=778428

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-58.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-08-29

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.03305