CVE-2012-4182 in Firefox

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditRules::WillInsert function in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

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• Reservation: 08/08/2012
• Disclosure: 10/10/2012
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: VDB-6636
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-399 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 8.3
• EPSS: 0.04752
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-4182
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4182
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2012-4182/