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CVE-2012-5840

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditorState::PrepareEditor function in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird befo…

Impact

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditorState::PrepareEditor function in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4214.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
MozillaFirefox
before 10.0.11
before 17.0
MozillaSeamonkey
before 2.14
MozillaThunderbird
before 17.0
MozillaThunderbird Esr
before 10.0.11
OpensuseOpensuse
Versions 11.4, 12.1, 12.2
SuseLinux Enterprise Desktop
Versions 10, 11
SuseLinux Enterprise Server
Versions 10, 11
SuseLinux Enterprise Software Development Kit
Versions 10, 11
CanonicalUbuntu Linux
Versions 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10
RedhatEnterprise Linux Desktop
Versions 5.0, 6.0
RedhatEnterprise Linux Eus
Version 6.3
RedhatEnterprise Linux Server
Versions 5.0, 6.0

Weakness classification

CWE-416

References