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CVE-2012-0470

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 10.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-04-25 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsSVGFEDiffuseLightingElement::LightPixel function 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 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid gfxImageSurface free operation) or possibly execute arbitrary code by leveraging the use of "different number systems."

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: 4.0, 4.0-beta1, 4.0-beta10, 4.0-beta11, 4.0-beta12, 4.0-beta2 (+24)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.9; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+106)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: 5.0, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 7.0, 7.0.1 (+9)
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/48920
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48922
• http://secunia.com/advisories/48972
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49047
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49055
• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2457
• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2458
• http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2464
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:066
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:081
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-23.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53225

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