CVE-2012-0452

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 10.x before 10.0.1, Thunderbird 10.x before 10.0.1, and SeaMonkey 2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger failure of an nsXBLDocumentInfo::ReadPrototypeBindings function call, related to the cycle collector's access to a hash table containing a stale XBL binding.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 1.80% Top 20%
Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/48110 third party advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00013.html vendor advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:017 vendor advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724284
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:018 vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/49055 third party advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00012.html vendor advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1360-1 vendor advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15017 vdb entry signature
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51975 vdb entry
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-10.html

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2012-0452?
CVE-2012-0452 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2012-0452?
To fix CVE-2012-0452, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2012-0452 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2012-0452 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~2% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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