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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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CVE-2012-0472 Detail

Description

The cairo-dwrite implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.9, when certain Windows Vista and Windows 7 configurations are used, does not properly restrict font-rendering attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/48972 CVE, MITRE Not Applicable  Permissions Required 
http://secunia.com/advisories/49055 CVE, MITRE Not Applicable  Permissions Required 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:066 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:081 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-25.html CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53218 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744480 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17067 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-0472
NVD Published Date:
04/25/2012
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
MITRE