PT-2012-3701 · Mozilla+1 · Thunderbird+3

Gary Kwong + 1 · Published 2012-08-28 · Updated 2017-09-19 · CVE-2012-1971

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 prior to 15.0 Thunderbird versions prior to 15.0 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.12

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, such as memory corruption and application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This is achieved through vectors related to garbage collection after certain MethodJIT execution, as well as unknown other vectors.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 15.0, update to version 15.0 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 15.0, update to version 15.0 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.12, update to version 2.12 or later.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-1971

Affected Products

Firefox

Seamonkey

Suse

Thunderbird

References · 27

• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-57 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-57.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-1971 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-1971 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719750 · Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748119 · Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=719750 · Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=745158 · Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773097 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16841 · Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749039 · Note