CVE-2012-5840: Use After Free
First published: Wed Nov 21 2012(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Mozilla Firefox | <17.0 | |
| Mozilla Firefox ESR | <10.0.11 | |
| Mozilla SeaMonkey | <2.14 | |
| Mozilla Thunderbird | <17.0 | |
| Mozilla Thunderbird Esr | <10.0.11 | |
| openSUSE openSUSE | =11.4 | |
| openSUSE openSUSE | =12.1 | |
| openSUSE openSUSE | =12.2 | |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop | =10-sp4 | |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop | =11-sp2 | |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | =10-sp4 | |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server | =11-sp2 | |
| Suse Linux Enterprise Server | =11-sp2 | |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit | =10-sp4 | |
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit | =11-sp2 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =10.04 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =11.10 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =12.04 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =12.10 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop | =5.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop | =6.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus | =6.3 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Server | =5.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Server | =6.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation | =5.0 | |
| Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation | =6.0 | |
| Mozilla Firefox | <10.0.11 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html
- http://osvdb.org/87606
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1482.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1483.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51359
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51360
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51369
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51370
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51381
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51434
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51439
- http://secunia.com/advisories/51440
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:173
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-105.html
- http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56635
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=805287
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80190
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16904
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