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CVE-2012-0454 Detail

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 on 32-bit Windows 7 platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving use of the file-open dialog in a child window, related to the IUnknown_QueryService function in the Windows shlwapi.dll library.


Metrics

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Hyperlink Resource
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00014.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/48402
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:032
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-12.html
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026801
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026803
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026804
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684555
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14258

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-0454
NVD Published Date:
03/14/2012
NVD Last Modified:
10/30/2018
Source:
MITRE