CVE-2012-0452

Summary

CVECVE-2012-0452
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-02-11 02:55:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionUse-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 10.x before 10.0.1, Thunderbird 10.x before 10.0.1, and SeaMonkey 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger failure of an nsXBLDocumentInfo::ReadPrototypeBindings function call, related to the cycle collector's access to a hash table containing a stale XBL binding.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-399 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox 10.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey 2.7 All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird 10.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2012:018 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:0261-1: critical: Security update for M af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2012:017 | Mandriva af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mandriva.com
MFSA 2012-10: use after free in nsXBLDocumentInfo::ReadPrototypeBindings af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mozilla.org
Security Alerts - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2012:0258-1: critical: MozillaFirefox to af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
724284 – use after free in nsXBLDocumentInfo::ReadPrototypeBindings af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org
USN-1360-1: Firefox vulnerability | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org
Mozilla Firefox/Thunderbird/SeaMonkey 'ReadPrototypeBindings()' Memory Corruption Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Security Advisory SA48110 - Pale Moon Two Vulnerabilities - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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