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CVE-2012-4214

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2012-11-20 mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2012-4214
Phase Assigned(20120808)

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditorState::PrepareEditor function in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-5840.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-105.html
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795804
CONFIRM http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml
MANDRIVA MDVSA-2012:173
REDHAT RHSA-2012:1482
REDHAT RHSA-2012:1483
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1583
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1585
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2012:1586
SUSE SUSE-SU-2012:1592
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2013:0175
UBUNTU USN-1638-1
UBUNTU USN-1638-3
UBUNTU USN-1638-2
UBUNTU USN-1636-1
BID 56628
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16884
SECUNIA 51359
SECUNIA 51360
SECUNIA 51369
SECUNIA 51381
SECUNIA 51434
SECUNIA 51439
SECUNIA 51440
SECUNIA 51370
XF firefox-nstexteditorstate-code-exec(80187)