CVE-2012-3979

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-08-29 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 15.0 on Android does not properly implement unspecified callers of the __android_log_print function, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web page that calls the JavaScript dump function.

Affected products

Android: all versions
Mozilla Firefox: through 14.0; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+161)
Mozilla Firefox for Android: 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3 (+1)

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/mfsa2012-71.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55344
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769265
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/mfsa2012-71.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55344
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769265

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