CVE-2012-4214

CVE Details

Release Date:

2012-11-20

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditorState::PrepareEditor function in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-5840.

See more information about CVE-2012-4214 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

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (firefox)	ELSA-2012-1482	2012-11-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2012-1483	2012-11-20
Oracle Linux version 5 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2012-1482	2012-11-20
Oracle Linux version 6 (firefox)	ELSA-2012-1482	2012-11-20
Oracle Linux version 6 (thunderbird)	ELSA-2012-1483	2012-11-20
Oracle Linux version 6 (xulrunner)	ELSA-2012-1482	2012-11-20

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