CVE-2012-5840 in Mozilla Firefox
Summary
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.
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Reservation
11/05/2012
Disclosure
11/21/2012
Entries
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| ID | Vulnerability | CWE | Exp | Cou | CVE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7004 | Mozilla Firefox PrepareEditor resource management | 399 | Proof-of-Concept | Official fix | CVE-2012-5840 |