CVE-2012-4187
Estado: ModificadaAlta (9.3)—
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 do not properly manage a certain insPos variable, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption and assertion failure) via unspecified vectors.
CVSS
- Versión: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Puntuación base: 9.3
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 6.84%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 94
- Fecha de la puntuación: 3/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (12)
Canonical — Ubuntu LinuxMozilla — FirefoxMozilla — SeamonkeyMozilla — ThunderbirdMozilla — Thunderbird ESRRedhat — Enterprise Linux DesktopRedhat — Enterprise Linux EUSRedhat — Enterprise Linux ServerRedhat — Enterprise Linux WorkstationSuse — Linux Enterprise DesktopSuse — Linux Enterprise SDKSuse — Linux Enterprise Server
CWE
- CWE-119
Referencias
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50856
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50892
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50904
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50935
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50936
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50984
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55318
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:163
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-86.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56125
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787493
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16425
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50856
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50892
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50904
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50935
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50936
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- http://secunia.com/advisories/55318
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:163
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-86.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56125
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787493
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16425
JSON original (NVD)
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