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CVE-2012-4185

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Description

Buffer overflow in the nsCharTraits::length function in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html

http://osvdb.org/86116

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/50856

http://secunia.com/advisories/50892

http://secunia.com/advisories/50904

http://secunia.com/advisories/50935

http://secunia.com/advisories/50936

http://secunia.com/advisories/50984

http://secunia.com/advisories/55318

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:163

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-86.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56127

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785753

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79162

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16009

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2012-10-10

Updated: 2020-08-10

Type: CWE-119

Risk Information

CVSS v2

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

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