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CVE-2012-1947

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2012-06-05 mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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CVE-2012-1947 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2012-1947
Phase Assigned(20120330)

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the utf16_to_isolatin1 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 via vectors that trigger a character-set conversion failure.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-40.html
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744541
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16911

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