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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-1971 Detail

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Thunderbird before 15.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to garbage collection after certain MethodJIT execution, and unknown other vectors.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html CVE, MITRE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-57.html CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2 CVE, MITRE
http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719750 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730208 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732870 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748119 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749039 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752038 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752087 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753162 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754150 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754242 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755916 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765936 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773097 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779849 CVE, MITRE
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780712 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16841 CVE, MITRE

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-2012-1971
NVD Published Date:
08/29/2012
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
MITRE