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CVE-2012-0463
N/ADescription
The nsWindow implementation in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.28 and 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird before 3.1.20 and 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 does not check the validity of an instance after event dispatching, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, as demonstrated by Mobile Firefox on Android.
CVE Details
CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A
Published3/14/2012
Last Modified4/29/2026
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0
Affected Products
mozilla:firefoxmozilla:seamonkeymozilla:thunderbirdmozilla:thunderbird_esr
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-20
References
http://secunia.com/advisories/48402(cve@mitre.org)
http://secunia.com/advisories/48553(cve@mitre.org)
http://secunia.com/advisories/48561(cve@mitre.org)
http://secunia.com/advisories/48624(cve@mitre.org)
http://secunia.com/advisories/48629(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52466(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026801(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026803(cve@mitre.org)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026804(cve@mitre.org)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688208(cve@mitre.org)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15143(cve@mitre.org)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00014.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00015.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-03/msg00042.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/48402(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/48553(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/48561(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/48624(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/48629(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-19.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/52466(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026801(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026803(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026804(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688208(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15143(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
IOC Correlations
No correlations recorded
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