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CVE-2012-1953

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-07-18 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The ElementAnimations::EnsureStyleRuleFor function in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, Thunderbird 5.0 through 13.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.11 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer over-read, incorrect pointer dereference, and heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: 4.0, 4.0-beta1, 4.0-beta10, 4.0-beta11, 4.0-beta12, 4.0-beta2 (+29)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.10; 1.0, 1.0-alpha, 1.0-beta, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3 (+62)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: 5.0, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 7.0, 7.0.1 (+11)
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4, 10.0.5

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00011.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00012.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00013.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-07/msg00016.html
• http://osvdb.org/83998
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1088.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49965
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49968
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49972
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49977
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49979
• http://secunia.com/advisories/49992

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