PT-2012-5257 · Mozilla+3 · Firefox+7

Inferno · Published 2012-11-20 · Updated 2024-10-21 · CVE-2012-4215

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 17.0 Firefox ESR 10.x versions prior to 10.0.11 Thunderbird versions prior to 17.0 Thunderbird ESR 10.x versions prior to 10.0.11 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.14

Description The issue is related to a use-after-free vulnerability in the nsPlaintextEditor::FireClipboardEvent function. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service due to heap memory corruption via unspecified vectors.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 17.0, update to version 17.0 or later. For Firefox ESR 10.x versions prior to 10.0.11, update to version 10.0.11 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 17.0, update to version 17.0 or later. For Thunderbird ESR 10.x versions prior to 10.0.11, update to version 10.0.11 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.14, update to version 2.14 or later.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

DoS

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

CESA-2012_1482

CESA-2012_1483

CVE-2012-4215

OPENSUSE-SU-2013_0175-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2014_1100-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

RHSA-2012:1482

RHSA-2012:1483

RHSA-2012_1482

RHSA-2012_1483

Affected Products

Centos

Firefox Esr

Firefox

Red Hat

Seamonkey

Suse

Thunderbird

Thunderbird Esr

References · 1990

• 🔥 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_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/windows/browser/mozilla_firefox_onreadystatechange.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_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_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/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://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798677 · Exploit