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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-3989 Detail

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Thunderbird before 16.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly perform a cast of an unspecified variable during use of the instanceof operator on a JavaScript object, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via a crafted web site.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://osvdb.org/86097 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/50856 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/50892 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/50904 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/50935 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://secunia.com/advisories/50984 CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-80.html CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783867 CVE, MITRE Issue Tracking  Vendor Advisory 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16814 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 

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-2012-3989
NVD Published Date:
10/10/2012
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
MITRE