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CVE-2012-0472

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2012-04-24	mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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CVE-2012-0472 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2012-0472
Phase	Assigned(20120109)

Description

The cairo-dwrite implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.9, when certain Windows Vista and Windows 7 configurations are used, does not properly restrict font-rendering attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-25.html
CONFIRM	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744480
BID	53218
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17067
SECUNIA	48972
SECUNIA	49055