PT-2012-5116 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+7

Soroush Dalili · Published 2012-10-09 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2012-3988

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 16.0 Firefox ESR versions prior to 10.0.8 Thunderbird versions prior to 16.0 Thunderbird ESR versions prior to 10.0.8 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.13

Description A use-after-free issue might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving the use of mozRequestFullScreen to enter full-screen mode, and the history.back method for backwards history navigation.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 16.0, update to version 16.0 or later. For Firefox ESR versions prior to 10.0.8, update to version 10.0.8 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 16.0, update to version 16.0 or later. For Thunderbird ESR versions prior to 10.0.8, update to version 10.0.8 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.13, update to version 2.13 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

CESA-2012_1350

CESA-2012_1351

CVE-2012-3988

OPENSUSE-SU-2012_1345-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2014_1100-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2012:1350

RHSA-2012:1351

RHSA-2012_1350

RHSA-2012_1351

Affected Products

Centos

Firefox Esr

Firefox

Red Hat

Seamonkey

Suse

Thunderbird

Thunderbird Esr

References · 3148

• 🔥 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/windows/browser/mozilla_firefox_onreadystatechange.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 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_nssvgvalue.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_interleaved_write.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_reduceright.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/2015-06203 · Security Note