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 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
- Centos, Firefox Esr, Firefox, Red Hat, Seamonkey, Suse, Thunderbird, Thunderbird Esr
- Mozilla Firefox
- < 10.0.11, 17.0
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- < 2.14
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- < 17.0
- Mozilla Thunderbird Esr
- < 10.0.11
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 2.0
- 9.3 HIGH
- EPSS
- 6.1% (93th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-416
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-11-21
CVE-2012-5840 at NVD
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