PT-2012-5234 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+1

Daniel Lombraña González + 3 · Published 2012-10-11 · Updated 2017-08-29 · CVE-2012-4190

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 16.0.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in memory corruption and application crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. This is due to the FT2FontEntry::CreateFontEntry function in FreeType, as used in the Android build of Mozilla Firefox.

Recommendations For versions prior to 16.0.1, update to version 16.0.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4190

Affected Products

Freetype

Firefox

References · 8

• https://mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2012-88 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-88.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2012-4190 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4190 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790139 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1027653 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79208 · Note
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798045 · Note