CVE-2012-3966

CVE Details

Release Date:

2012-08-29

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a negative height value in a BMP image within a .ICO file, related to (1) improper handling of the transparency bitmask by the nsICODecoder component and (2) improper processing of the alpha channel by the nsBMPDecoder component.

See more information about CVE-2012-3966 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:	10	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Complete
Integrity Impact:	Complete	Availability Impact:	Complete

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2012-1210	2012-08-29
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2012-1210	2012-08-29
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2012-1210	2012-08-29
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2012-1211	2012-08-29
Oracle Linux version 6 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2012-1210	2012-08-29

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