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CVE-2012-3988 (GCVE-0-2012-3988)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-10-10 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:21
VLAI
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability 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 might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving use of mozRequestFullScreen to enter full-screen mode, and use of the history.back method for backwards history navigation.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://secunia.com/advisories/50936 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/55318 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=725770 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfs… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2012-10-09 00:00
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      "current_release_date": "2026-06-27T13:34:14+00:00",
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      "id": "CVE-2012-3988",
      "initial_release_date": "2012-10-09T00:00:00+00:00",
      "product_status:fixed": "160",
      "source": "Red Hat CSAF VEX",
      "status": "final",
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      "aggregate_severity": "moderate",
      "current_release_date": "2026-09-02T12:56:02Z",
      "cve": "CVE-2012-3988",
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      "initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:45:14Z",
      "product_status:known_not_affected": "47",
      "product_status:recommended": "166",
      "source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
      "status": "interim",
      "title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2012-3988",
      "url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2012-3988.json",
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}



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