CVE-2012-0454
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2012-0454 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLISHED |
| Assigner | mitre |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2012-03-14 19:55:01 UTC |
| Updated | 2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC |
| Description | Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 on 32-bit Windows 7 platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving use of the file-open dialog in a child window, related to the IUnknown_QueryService function in the Windows shlwapi.dll library. |
Risk And Classification
CVSS v2.0 Breakdown
Access Vector
NetworkAccess Complexity
LowAuthentication
NoneConfidentiality
PartialIntegrity
PartialAvailability
PartialAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Operating System | Microsoft | Windows 7 | - | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 10.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta1 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta10 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta11 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta12 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta2 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta3 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta4 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta5 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta6 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta7 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta8 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0 | beta9 | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 4.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 5.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 5.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 6.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 6.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 6.0.2 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 7.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 7.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 8.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 8.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 9.0 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox | 9.0.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox Esr | 10.1 | All | All | All |
| Application | Mozilla | Firefox Esr | 10.2 | All | All | All |
Vendor Declared Affected Products
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mozilla Seamonkey Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks - SecurityTracker | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securitytracker.com | |
| MFSA 2012-12: Use-after-free in shlwapi.dll | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.mozilla.org | |
| Security Alerts - Secunia | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | |
| Repository / Oval Repository | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | oval.cisecurity.org | |
| 684555 – (CVE-2012-0454) Exploitable "use after free" @ SHLWAPI!IUnknown_QueryService 0x3b | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | bugzilla.mozilla.org | |
| [security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:0424-1: critical: Security update for M | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | lists.opensuse.org | |
| Mozilla Thunderbird Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks - SecurityTracker | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securitytracker.com | |
| Mozilla Firefox Multiple Bugs Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Conduct Cross-Site Scripting Attacks - SecurityTracker | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.securitytracker.com | |
| Security Alerts - Secunia | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | secunia.com | |
| mandriva.com | af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 | www.mandriva.com | |
| Security Advisory SA48561 - Pale Moon Multiple 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 |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
There are currently no legacy QID mappings associated with this CVE.