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CVE-2012-1940

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
05/06/2012
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsFrameList::FirstChild function in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 12.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, Thunderbird 5.0 through 12.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) by changing the size of a container of absolutely positioned elements in a column.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
9.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:beta10:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:beta11:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:beta12:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:beta3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:beta5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:beta6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:beta7:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:beta8:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0:beta9:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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