CVE-2012-0472

CVE Details

Release Date:

2012-04-25

Description

The cairo-dwrite implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.9, when certain Windows Vista and Windows 7 configurations are used, does not properly restrict font-rendering attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

See more information about CVE-2012-0472 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	9.3	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Medium
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2012-0515	2012-04-25
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2012-0515	2012-04-25
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2012-0515	2012-04-25
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2012-0516	2012-04-25
Oracle Linux version 6 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2012-0515	2012-04-25

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