Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting thunderbird-debuginfo package, versions <0:10.0.10-1.el5_8


Severity

Recommended
critical

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.69% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-THUNDERBIRDDEBUGINFO-9836621
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed26 Oct 2012

Introduced: 26 Oct 2012

CVE-2012-4196  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-74  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:10 thunderbird-debuginfo to version 0:10.0.10-1.el5_8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2012:1413.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream thunderbird-debuginfo package and not the thunderbird-debuginfo package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0.2, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.10, Thunderbird before 16.0.2, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.13.2 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read the Location object via a prototype property-injection attack that defeats certain protection mechanisms for this object.

CVSS Base Scores

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