CVE-2012-1960

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% 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-200

Description

The qcms_transform_data_rgb_out_lut_sse2 function in the QCMS implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 13.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 13.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.11 might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via a crafted color profile that triggers an out-of-bounds read operation.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: 4.0, 4.0-beta1, 4.0-beta10, 4.0-beta11, 4.0-beta12, 4.0-beta2 (+23)
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)

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/84010
http://secunia.com/advisories/49965
http://secunia.com/advisories/49968
http://secunia.com/advisories/49972
http://secunia.com/advisories/49993
http://secunia.com/advisories/49994
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-50.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54572

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