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...
HighCVSS 9.3
EPSS 6.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Exploit status
- No public exploit known
Description
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
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| mozilla Firefox | < 10.0.11 | 10.0.11 |
| mozilla Firefox | < 17.0 | 17.0 |
| mozilla seamonkey | < 2.14 | 2.14 |
| mozilla Thunderbird | < 17.0 | 17.0 |
| mozilla thunderbird esr | < 10.0.11 | 10.0.11 |
| opensuse | = 11.4 | No fix listed |
| opensuse | = 12.1 | No fix listed |
| opensuse | = 12.2 | No fix listed |
| SUSE linux enterprise desktop | = 10-sp4 | No fix listed |
| SUSE linux enterprise desktop | = 11-sp2 | No fix listed |
| SUSE linux enterprise server | = 10-sp4 | No fix listed |
| SUSE linux enterprise server | = 11-sp2 | No fix listed |
| SUSE linux enterprise software development kit | = 10-sp4 | No fix listed |
| SUSE linux enterprise software development kit | = 11-sp2 | No fix listed |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | = 10.04 | No fix listed |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | = 11.10 | No fix listed |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | = 12.04 | No fix listed |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | = 12.10 | No fix listed |
| redhat enterprise linux desktop | = 5.0 | No fix listed |
| redhat enterprise linux desktop | = 6.0 | No fix listed |
| redhat enterprise linux eus | = 6.3 | No fix listed |
| redhat enterprise linux server | = 5.0 | No fix listed |
| redhat enterprise linux server | = 6.0 | No fix listed |
| redhat enterprise linux workstation | = 5.0 | No fix listed |
| redhat enterprise linux workstation | = 6.0 | No fix listed |
References
- SUSE-SU-2012:1592 mailing-list third-party-advisory vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0175 mailing-list third-party-advisory vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1583 mailing-list third-party-advisory vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1585 mailing-list third-party-advisory vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1586 mailing-list third-party-advisory vendor-advisory
- 87606 broken-link third-party-advisory vdb-entry
- RHSA-2012:1482 third-party-advisory vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2012:1483 third-party-advisory vendor-advisory
- 51359 third-party-advisory
- 51360 third-party-advisory
- 51369 third-party-advisory
- 51370 third-party-advisory
- 51381 third-party-advisory
- 51434 third-party-advisory
- 51439 third-party-advisory
- 51440 third-party-advisory
- MDVSA-2012:173 third-party-advisory vendor-advisory
- www.mozilla.org vendor-advisory
- www.palemoon.org broken-link
- 56635 third-party-advisory vdb-entry
- USN-1636-1 third-party-advisory vendor-advisory
- USN-1638-1 third-party-advisory vendor-advisory
- USN-1638-2 third-party-advisory vendor-advisory
- USN-1638-3 third-party-advisory vendor-advisory
- bugzilla.mozilla.org exploit issue-tracking patch vendor-advisory
- mozilla-prepareeditor-code-exec(80190) third-party-advisory vdb-entry
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16904 signature third-party-advisory vdb-entry