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CVE-2012-1971

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-08-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Thunderbird before 15.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors related to garbage collection after certain MethodJIT execution, and unknown other vectors.

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: through 14.0; 1.0, 1.0-preview_release, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4 (+140)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: through 2.11; 2.0, 2.0-alpha_1, 2.0-alpha_2, 2.0-alpha_3, 2.0-beta_1, 2.0-beta_2 (+72)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: through 14.0; 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5 (+95)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-57.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2
• http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719750
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730208
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732870
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748119
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749039
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752038

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