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CVE-2012-0463

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2012-03-14 mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2012-0463
Phase Assigned(20120109)

Description

The nsWindow implementation in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before 3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 does not check the validity of an instance after event dispatching, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, as demonstrated by Mobile Firefox on Android.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-19.html
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688208
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:0417
BID 52466
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15143
SECUNIA 48629
SECUNIA 48553
SECUNIA 48561
SECUNIA 48624