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critical9.3

CVE-2012-4185

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 1…

Impact

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
MozillaFirefox
before 10.0.8
before 16.0
MozillaThunderbird Esr
before 10.0.8
MozillaThunderbird
before 16.0
MozillaSeamonkey
before 2.13
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 10.04, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04
RedhatEnterprise Linux Desktop
Versions 5.0, 6.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Eus
Version 6.3
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server
Versions 5.0, 6.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Workstation
Versions 5.0, 6.0
SuseLinux Enterprise Desktop
Versions 10, 11
SuseLinux Enterprise Sdk
Version 10
SuseLinux Enterprise Server
Versions 10, 11

Weakness classification

References