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CVE-2012-0472

N/A
Published: April 25, 2012 at 10:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:37 PM UTC
4 products affected across 1 vendorFirefoxThunderbirdSeamonkey

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%

Description

The cairo-dwrite implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.9, when certain Windows Vista and Windows 7 configurations are used, does not properly restrict font-rendering attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Remediation

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Patch and advisory references

References (8)

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIANot ApplicablePermissions Required
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/48972
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIANot ApplicablePermissions Required
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/49055
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:066
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:081
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-25.html
VDB Entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53218
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue Tracking
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744480
VDB EntrySignaturex_refsource_OVAL
Source: [email protected]
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17067

CVSS

9.3HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
COMPLETE
Integrity
COMPLETE
Availability
COMPLETE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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