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CVE-2012-5840

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditorState::PrepareEditor function in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.1

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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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Affected versions

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    Version range not reported

References 25

ubuntu.com

oval.cisecurity.org

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osvdb.org

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rhn.redhat.com

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com

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mandriva.com

bugzilla.mozilla.org

securityfocus.com