Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Thunderbird before 15.0, and SeaMonkey before…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.8% · top 9.9% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.

Weakness

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Affected products

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References (22)

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=730208 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-57.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754150 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780712 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16841 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=749039 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=754242 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=755916 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765936 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719750 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779849 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-1548-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773097 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732870 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752087 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• USN-1548-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=753162 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748119 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2012:1167 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=752038 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• SUSE-SU-2012:1157 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 19:17 UTC.