CVE-2012-3990

Summary

CVECVE-2012-3990
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-10-10 17:55:00 UTC
Updated2020-08-13 19:27:00 UTC
DescriptionUse-after-free vulnerability in the IME State Manager implementation 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 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, related to the nsIContent::GetNameSpaceID function.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-416

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 11.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 11.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 10.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 11.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 11.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 6.0 All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr All All All All
Application Mozilla Firefox Esr All All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey All All All All
Application Mozilla Seamonkey All All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird All All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird All All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird Esr All All All All
Application Mozilla Thunderbird Esr All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus 6.3 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus 6.3 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6.0 All All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 sp3 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 sp3 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Sdk 10 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Sdk 10 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp3 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp3 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 10 sp4 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp3 All All
Operating System Suse Linux Enterprise Server 11 sp3 All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-1611-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities | Ubuntu UBUNTU www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA50936 - Mozilla Firefox / Thunderbird Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
About Secunia Research | Flexera SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
About Secunia Research | Flexera SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2569-1 icedove DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
About Secunia Research | Flexera SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository OVAL oval.cisecurity.org Third Party Advisory
MFSA 2012-87: Use-after-free in the IME State Manager CONFIRM www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2565-1 iceweasel DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
787704 – (CVE-2012-3990) use-after-free in nsIContent::GetNameSpaceID CONFIRM bugzilla.mozilla.org Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
About Secunia Research | Flexera SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-2572-1 iceape DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA50935 - Mozilla SeaMonkey Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Support / Security / Advisories / / MDVSA-2012:163 | Mandriva MANDRIVA www.mandriva.com Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA50892 - Ubuntu update for firefox - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA51181 - Debian update for iceape - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:1351-1: important: Security update for SUSE lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690312 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for mozilla (6e5a9afd-12d3-11e2-b47d-c8600054b392)
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