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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2012-5840 Detail

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditorState::PrepareEditor function in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4214.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html CVE, MITRE Mailing List  Third Party Advisory 
http://osvdb.org/87606 CVE, MITRE Broken Link  Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1482.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1483.html CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/51359 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/51360 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/51369 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/51370 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/51381 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/51434 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/51439 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/51440 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:173 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-105.html CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml CVE, MITRE Broken Link 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56635 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=805287 CVE, MITRE Exploit  Issue Tracking  Patch  Vendor Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80190 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16904 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-416 Use After Free cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2012-5840
NVD Published Date:
11/21/2012
NVD Last Modified:
04/10/2025
Source:
MITRE