PT-2012-5259 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+3

Abhishek Arya · Published 2012-11-20 · Updated 2024-06-15 · CVE-2012-4217

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 Thunderbird versions prior to 17.0 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.14

Description A use-after-free issue in the nsViewManager::ProcessPendingUpdates function 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 Thunderbird versions prior to 17.0, update to version 17.0 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

CVE-2012-4217

OPENSUSE-SU-2013_0175-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2014_1100-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

Affected Products

Firefox

Seamonkey

Suse

Thunderbird

References · 1941

• 🔥 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=802902 · Exploit