PT-2012-3672 · Mozilla+3 · Thunderbird+7

Abhishek Arya · Published 2012-06-05 · Updated 2024-10-21 · CVE-2012-1941

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions 4.x through 12.0 Firefox ESR versions 10.x before 10.0.5 Thunderbird versions 5.0 through 12.0 Thunderbird ESR versions 10.x before 10.0.5 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.10

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by resizing a window displaying absolutely positioned and relatively positioned elements in nested columns. This is due to a heap-based buffer overflow in the nsHTMLReflowState::CalculateHypotheticalBox function.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions 4.x through 12.0, update to a version after 12.0. For Firefox ESR versions 10.x before 10.0.5, update to version 10.0.5 or later. For Thunderbird versions 5.0 through 12.0, update to a version after 12.0. For Thunderbird ESR versions 10.x before 10.0.5, update to version 10.0.5 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.10, update to version 2.10 or later.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CESA-2012_0710

CESA-2012_0715

CVE-2012-1941

OPENSUSE-SU-2014_1100-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

RHSA-2012:0710

RHSA-2012:0715

RHSA-2012_0710

RHSA-2012_0715

Affected Products

Centos

Firefox Esr

Firefox

Red Hat

Seamonkey

Suse

Thunderbird

Thunderbird Esr

References · 1963

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_tostring_console_injection.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_attribchildremoved.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_webidl_injection.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_firefox_onreadystatechange.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_proto_crmfrequest.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/browser/firefox_svg_plugin.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_firefox_xmlserializer.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_reduceright.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_nssvgvalue.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/browser/mozilla_interleaved_write.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/vlad902/annotated-fbi-tbb-exploit · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/argp/cve-2011-3026-firefox · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/mk219533/CVE-2010-1205 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/johnwchadwick/cve-2009-3555-test-server · Exploit
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-02789 · Security Note