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FKIE_CVE-2012-0452

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2012-02-11 02:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:37
Severity
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 10.x before 10.0.1, Thunderbird 10.x before 10.0.1, and SeaMonkey 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger failure of an nsXBLDocumentInfo::ReadPrototypeBindings function call, related to the cycle collector's access to a hash table containing a stale XBL binding.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00012.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00013.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/48110
cve@mitre.orghttp://secunia.com/advisories/49055
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:017
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:018
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-10.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51975
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1360-1
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724284
cve@mitre.orghttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15017
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00012.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00013.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/48110
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/49055
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:017
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:018
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-10.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51975
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1360-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724284
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15017
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
mozilla firefox 10.0
mozilla thunderbird 10.0
mozilla seamonkey 2.7

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-16T23:37:17.990",
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