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Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package firefox  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1304-FIREFOX-641600
  • published21 Nov 2012
  • disclosed21 Nov 2012
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Introduced: 21 Nov 2012

CVE-2012-5830  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:13.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox package and not the firefox package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Use-after-free vulnerability 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 on Mac OS X allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTML document.

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