CVE-2012-3988

CVE Details

Release Date:2012-10-09

Description


Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving use of mozRequestFullScreen to enter full-screen mode, and use of the history.back method for backwards history navigation.

See more information about CVE-2012-3988 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: 6.8 Base Metrics: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector: Network Attack Complexity: Medium
Authentication: None required Confidentiality Impact: Partial
Integrity Impact: Partial Availability Impact: Partial

Errata information


PlatformErrataRelease Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)ELSA-2012-13502012-10-10
Oracle Linux version 5 (thunderbird)ELSA-2012-13512012-10-10
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)ELSA-2012-13502012-10-10
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)ELSA-2012-13502012-10-10
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)ELSA-2012-13512012-10-10
Oracle Linux version 6 (xulrunner)ELSA-2012-13502012-10-10



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