CVE-2012-3988

Use-after-free vulnerability 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 might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving use of mozRequestFullScreen to enter full-screen mode, and use of the history.back method for backwards history navigation.
References
Link Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html Third Party Advisory
http://osvdb.org/86109 Broken Link
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50856 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50892 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50904 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50935 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50936 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50984 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/55318 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:163 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-79.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725770 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79149 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16334 Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html Third Party Advisory
http://osvdb.org/86109 Broken Link
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50856 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50892 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50904 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50935 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50936 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/50984 Third Party Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/55318 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:163 Third Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-79.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1 Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725770 Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79149 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16334 Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 4 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 5 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 6 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:-:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:11.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 7 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:10:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:11:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_sdk:10:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:10:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_server:11:sp3:*:*:*:vmware:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2012-10-10 17:55

Updated : 2025-04-11 00:51


NVD link : CVE-2012-3988

Mitre link : CVE-2012-3988

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2012-3988


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Products Affected

redhat

  • enterprise_linux_workstation
  • enterprise_linux_desktop
  • enterprise_linux_eus
  • enterprise_linux_server

mozilla

  • thunderbird_esr
  • thunderbird
  • firefox
  • seamonkey

suse

  • linux_enterprise_desktop
  • linux_enterprise_server
  • linux_enterprise_sdk

canonical

  • ubuntu_linux
CWE
CWE-416

Use After Free