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CVE-2012-5843 Detail

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-91.html Vendor Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3 Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760887 Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765409 Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774953 Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780778 Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781859 Exploit  Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784404 Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787089 Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788822 Exploit  Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789075 Issue Tracking  Patch 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791601 Exploit  Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=793253 Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=795281 Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797163 Exploit  Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=798678 Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16839 Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-noinfo Insufficient Information cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-5843
NVD Published Date:
11/21/2012
NVD Last Modified:
08/13/2020
Source:
MITRE