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CVE-2012-1940

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2012-06-05	mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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CVE-2012-1940 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2012-1940
Phase	Assigned(20120330)

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsFrameList::FirstChild function in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 12.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, Thunderbird 5.0 through 12.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and application crash) by changing the size of a container of absolutely positioned elements in a column.

References

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-40.html
CONFIRM	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747688
DEBIAN	DSA-2499
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17054