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CVE-2012-3988

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered	Topic
2012-10-10	mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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CVE-2012-3988 at cve.mitre.org

Details

Type	Candidate
Name	CVE-2012-3988
Phase	Assigned(20120711)

Description

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

Source	Reference
CONFIRM	http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-79.html
CONFIRM	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725770
MANDRIVA	MDVSA-2012:163
REDHAT	RHSA-2012:1351
SUSE	SUSE-SU-2012:1351
UBUNTU	USN-1611-1
OSVDB	86109
OVAL	oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16334
SECUNIA	50856
SECUNIA	50892
SECUNIA	50904
SECUNIA	50935
SECUNIA	50936
SECUNIA	50984
SECUNIA	55318
XF	firefox-full-screen-code-exec(79149)