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CWE
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CVE-2012-3970: Use After Free

First published: Wed Aug 29 2012(Updated: )

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTArray_base::Length function in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via vectors involving movement of a requiredFeatures attribute from one SVG document to another.

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
Firefox=10.0
Firefox=10.0.1
Firefox=10.0.2
Firefox=10.0.3
Firefox=10.0.4
Firefox=10.0.5
Firefox=10.0.6
Firefox<=14.0
Firefox=1.0
Firefox=1.0-preview_release
Firefox=1.0.1
Firefox=1.0.2
Firefox=1.0.3
Firefox=1.0.4
Firefox=1.0.5
Firefox=1.0.6
Firefox=1.0.7
Firefox=1.0.8
Firefox=1.4.1
Firefox=1.5
Firefox=1.5-beta1
Firefox=1.5-beta2
Firefox=1.5.0.1
Firefox=1.5.0.2
Firefox=1.5.0.3
Firefox=1.5.0.4
Firefox=1.5.0.5
Firefox=1.5.0.6
Firefox=1.5.0.7
Firefox=1.5.0.8
Firefox=1.5.0.9
Firefox=1.5.0.10
Firefox=1.5.0.11
Firefox=1.5.0.12
Firefox=1.5.1
Firefox=1.5.2
Firefox=1.5.3
Firefox=1.5.4
Firefox=1.5.5
Firefox=1.5.6
Firefox=1.5.7
Firefox=1.5.8
Firefox=1.8
Firefox=2.0
Firefox=2.0.0.1
Firefox=2.0.0.2
Firefox=2.0.0.3
Firefox=2.0.0.4
Firefox=2.0.0.5
Firefox=2.0.0.6
Firefox=2.0.0.7
Firefox=2.0.0.8
Firefox=2.0.0.9
Firefox=2.0.0.10
Firefox=2.0.0.11
Firefox=2.0.0.12
Firefox=2.0.0.13
Firefox=2.0.0.14
Firefox=2.0.0.15
Firefox=2.0.0.16
Firefox=2.0.0.17
Firefox=2.0.0.18
Firefox=2.0.0.19
Firefox=2.0.0.20
Firefox=3.0
Firefox=3.0.1
Firefox=3.0.2
Firefox=3.0.3
Firefox=3.0.4
Firefox=3.0.5
Firefox=3.0.6
Firefox=3.0.7
Firefox=3.0.8
Firefox=3.0.9
Firefox=3.0.10
Firefox=3.0.11
Firefox=3.0.12
Firefox=3.0.13
Firefox=3.0.14
Firefox=3.0.15
Firefox=3.0.16
Firefox=3.0.17
Firefox=3.5
Firefox=3.5.1
Firefox=3.5.2
Firefox=3.5.3
Firefox=3.5.4
Firefox=3.5.5
Firefox=3.5.6
Firefox=3.5.7
Firefox=3.5.8
Firefox=3.5.9
Firefox=3.5.10
Firefox=3.5.11
Firefox=3.5.12
Firefox=3.5.13
Firefox=3.5.14
Firefox=3.5.15
Firefox=3.6
Firefox=3.6.2
Firefox=3.6.3
Firefox=3.6.4
Firefox=3.6.6
Firefox=3.6.7
Firefox=3.6.8
Firefox=3.6.9
Firefox=3.6.10
Firefox=3.6.11
Firefox=3.6.12
Firefox=3.6.13
Firefox=3.6.14
Firefox=3.6.15
Firefox=3.6.16
Firefox=3.6.17
Firefox=3.6.18
Firefox=3.6.19
Firefox=3.6.20
Firefox=3.6.21
Firefox=3.6.22
Firefox=3.6.23
Firefox=3.6.24
Firefox=3.6.25
Firefox=4.0
Firefox=4.0-beta1
Firefox=4.0-beta10
Firefox=4.0-beta11
Firefox=4.0-beta12
Firefox=4.0-beta2
Firefox=4.0-beta3
Firefox=4.0-beta4
Firefox=4.0-beta5
Firefox=4.0-beta6
Firefox=4.0-beta7
Firefox=4.0-beta8
Firefox=4.0-beta9
Firefox=4.0.1
Firefox=5.0
Firefox=5.0.1
Firefox=6.0
Firefox=6.0.1
Firefox=6.0.2
Firefox=7.0
Firefox=7.0.1
Firefox=8.0
Firefox=8.0.1
Firefox=9.0
Firefox=9.0.1
Firefox=11.0
Firefox=12.0
Firefox=12.0-beta6
Firefox=13.0
Thunderbird<=14.0
Thunderbird=1.0
Thunderbird=1.0.1
Thunderbird=1.0.2
Thunderbird=1.0.3
Thunderbird=1.0.4
Thunderbird=1.0.5
Thunderbird=1.0.5-beta
Thunderbird=1.0.6
Thunderbird=1.0.7
Thunderbird=1.0.8
Thunderbird=1.5
Thunderbird=1.5-beta2
Thunderbird=1.5.0.1
Thunderbird=1.5.0.2
Thunderbird=1.5.0.3
Thunderbird=1.5.0.4
Thunderbird=1.5.0.5
Thunderbird=1.5.0.6
Thunderbird=1.5.0.7
Thunderbird=1.5.0.8
Thunderbird=1.5.0.9
Thunderbird=1.5.0.10
Thunderbird=1.5.0.11
Thunderbird=1.5.0.12
Thunderbird=1.5.0.13
Thunderbird=1.5.0.14
Thunderbird=1.5.1
Thunderbird=1.5.2
Thunderbird=1.7.1
Thunderbird=1.7.3
Thunderbird=2.0
Thunderbird=2.0.0.0
Thunderbird=2.0.0.1
Thunderbird=2.0.0.2
Thunderbird=2.0.0.3
Thunderbird=2.0.0.4
Thunderbird=2.0.0.5
Thunderbird=2.0.0.6
Thunderbird=2.0.0.7
Thunderbird=2.0.0.8
Thunderbird=2.0.0.9
Thunderbird=2.0.0.11
Thunderbird=2.0.0.12
Thunderbird=2.0.0.13
Thunderbird=2.0.0.14
Thunderbird=2.0.0.15
Thunderbird=2.0.0.16
Thunderbird=2.0.0.17
Thunderbird=2.0.0.18
Thunderbird=2.0.0.19
Thunderbird=2.0.0.20
Thunderbird=2.0.0.21
Thunderbird=2.0.0.22
Thunderbird=2.0.0.23
Thunderbird=3.0
Thunderbird=3.0.1
Thunderbird=3.0.2
Thunderbird=3.0.3
Thunderbird=3.0.4
Thunderbird=3.0.5
Thunderbird=3.0.6
Thunderbird=3.0.7
Thunderbird=3.0.8
Thunderbird=3.0.9
Thunderbird=3.0.10
Thunderbird=3.0.11
Thunderbird=3.1
Thunderbird=3.1.1
Thunderbird=3.1.2
Thunderbird=3.1.3
Thunderbird=3.1.4
Thunderbird=3.1.5
Thunderbird=3.1.6
Thunderbird=3.1.7
Thunderbird=3.1.8
Thunderbird=3.1.9
Thunderbird=3.1.10
Thunderbird=3.1.11
Thunderbird=3.1.12
Thunderbird=3.1.13
Thunderbird=3.1.14
Thunderbird=3.1.15
Thunderbird=3.1.16
Thunderbird=3.1.17
Thunderbird=5.0
Thunderbird=6.0
Thunderbird=6.0.1
Thunderbird=6.0.2
Thunderbird=7.0
Thunderbird=7.0.1
Thunderbird=8.0
Thunderbird=9.0
Thunderbird=9.0.1
Thunderbird=10.0
Thunderbird=10.0.1
Thunderbird=10.0.2
Thunderbird=10.0.3
Thunderbird=10.0.4
Thunderbird=11.0
Thunderbird=12.0
Thunderbird=13.0
Mozilla SeaMonkey<=2.11
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0-alpha_1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0-alpha_2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0-alpha_3
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0-beta_1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0-beta_2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0-rc1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0-rc2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0.1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0.2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0.3
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0.4
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0.5
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0.6
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0.7
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0.8
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0.9
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0.10
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0.11
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0.12
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0.13
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.0.14
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.1-alpha1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.1-alpha2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.1-alpha3
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.1-beta1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.1-beta2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.1-beta3
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.1-rc1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.1-rc2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.2-beta1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.2-beta2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.2-beta3
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.3
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.3-beta1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.3-beta2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.3-beta3
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.3.1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.3.2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.3.3
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.4
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.4-beta1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.4-beta2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.4-beta3
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.4.1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.5
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.5-beta1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.5-beta2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.5-beta3
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.5-beta4
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.6
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.6-beta1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.6-beta2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.6-beta3
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.6-beta4
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.6.1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.7
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.7-beta1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.7-beta2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.7-beta3
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.7-beta4
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.7-beta5
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.7.1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.7.2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.8
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.8-beta1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.8-beta2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.8-beta3
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.8-beta4
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.8-beta5
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.8-beta6
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.9
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.9-beta1
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.9-beta2
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.9-beta3
Mozilla SeaMonkey=2.10
Mozilla Thunderbird=10.0
Mozilla Thunderbird=10.0.1
Mozilla Thunderbird=10.0.2
Mozilla Thunderbird=10.0.3
Mozilla Thunderbird=10.0.4
Mozilla Thunderbird=10.0.5
Mozilla Thunderbird=10.0.6
Firefox ESR=10.0
Firefox ESR=10.0.1
Firefox ESR=10.0.2
Firefox ESR=10.0.3
Firefox ESR=10.0.4
Firefox ESR=10.0.5
Firefox ESR=10.0.6

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is the severity of CVE-2012-3970?

    CVE-2012-3970 has a high severity rating as it allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service.

  • How do I fix CVE-2012-3970?

    To fix CVE-2012-3970, update Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, or SeaMonkey to the latest version that is not affected by this vulnerability.

  • Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-3970?

    CVE-2012-3970 affects Mozilla Firefox versions before 15.0, Thunderbird versions before 15.0, Thunderbirds ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey versions before 2.12.

  • What types of attacks can CVE-2012-3970 enable?

    CVE-2012-3970 can enable remote code execution attacks or cause a denial of service on affected systems.

  • Is there an exploit available for CVE-2012-3970?

    Yes, there are known exploits for CVE-2012-3970 that can leverage the vulnerability to compromise affected applications.

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