CVE-2012-4551

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: 2012-11-30 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in libunity-webapps before 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted web site, related to "certain hash tables."

Affected products

Ps Project Management Team Libunity-Webapps: through 2.4.0; 0.02, 0.2.1, 0.3, 0.3.1, 2.0, 2.0.1 (+11)

References

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~webapps/libunity-webapps/trunk/revision/815
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/29/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56314
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1635-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/libunity-webapps/%2Bbug/1068495
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~webapps/libunity-webapps/trunk/revision/815
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/29/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56314
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1635-1
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bsource/libunity-webapps/%2Bbug/1068495

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