CVE-2012-5843

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Summary

CVECVE-2012-5843
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2012-11-21 12:55:03 UTC
Updated2026-04-29 01:13:23 UTC
DescriptionMultiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 9.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mozilla Firefox All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

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

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
openSUSE-SU-2012:1583-1: moderate: update for MozillaFirefox af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2012:1586-1: moderate: update for xulrunner af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2012:1585-1: moderate: update for MozillaThunderbird af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Security Advisory SA51440 - SUSE update for seamonkey - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
USN-1638-3: Firefox regressions | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
765409 – Crash [@ nsLineLayout::ReflowFrame(nsIFrame *,unsigned int &,nsHTMLReflowMetrics *,bool &) ] | ASSERTION: unexpected flow: 'mFrames.ContainsFrame(nextInFlow)' | ASSERTION: StealFrame: can't find aChild: 'removed' | ASSERTION: StealFrame failure: 'NS_SUCCE af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2013:0175-1: important: security update af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
793253 – Supposedly infallible TArray can fail to allocate a buffer af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Security Advisory SA51439 - SUSE update for MozillaFirefox - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
781859 – Assertion failure: lifetime && lifetime->head == uint32_t(head - outerScript->code) && lifetime->entry == uint32_t(entryTarget - outerScript->code), at methodjit/LoopState.cpp:80 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
MFSA 2012-91: Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:17.0/ rv:10.0.11) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.mozilla.org Vendor Advisory
Repository / Oval Repository af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 oval.cisecurity.org Third Party Advisory
791601 – "Assertion failure: checkmTextrun ? !mTextRun : !Properties().Get(UninflatedTextRunProperty())" with font inflation, -moz-column af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
USN-1638-2: ubufox update | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
780778 – Make sure we always release stuff on the right thread. af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
795281 – Read after free in nsXPCWrappedJS::Release() af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
784404 – Intermittent assertion in dom/devicestorage/test/test_basic.html ("Assertion failure: i < Length() (invalid array index), at e:\builds\moz2_slave\m-in-w32-dbg\build\obj-firefox\dist\include\nsTArray.h:526") af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
797163 – "Assertion failure: lifetime->entry == uint32_t(entryTarget - outerScript->code)," af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
[security-announce] SUSE-SU-2012:1592-1: important: Security update for af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
787089 – Crash [@ nsStyleContext::GetRuleNode()] with deleted this af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
USN-1636-1: Thunderbird vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
789075 – Video playback causes browser to stop responding (mostly) or crash in Cleopatra tool af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Issue Tracking, Patch
760887 – "ASSERTION: function object has parent of unknown class!" af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Security Advisory SA51370 - Ubuntu update for thunderbird - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
About Secunia Research | Flexera af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
798678 – WeakMaps with keys from another compartment are possible and incorrect af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Security Advisory SA51434 - SUSE update for xulrunner - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
774953 – "Assertion failure: [infer failure] Missing type pushed 0" with iframes, adoptNode af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
Security Advisory SA51369 - Ubuntu update for firefox - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Third Party Advisory
USN-1638-1: Firefox vulnerabilities | Ubuntu af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
788822 – Assertion failure: [infer failure] Missing type pushed 0: <0x7f7d5aa09060>, at jsinfer.cpp:328 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugzilla.mozilla.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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