Use After Free Affecting seamonkey package, versions [,2.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.52% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SEAMONKEY-2379607
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 Aug 2012
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Aug 2012

CVE-2012-1972  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade seamonkey to version 2.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsHTMLEditor::CollapseAdjacentTextNodes function in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

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