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CVE-2012-4186
Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsWaveReader::DecodeAudioData function in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8,…
High9.3EPSS 14.7%
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- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsWaveReader::DecodeAudioData function in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 14.7% · top 3.3% of all CVEs (2 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
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (20)
- 50904 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 50984 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 50935 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16193 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 50856 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-2565 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 50892 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 86117 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- DSA-2572 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2012:1351 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 50936 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-86.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 51181 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 55318 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:1351 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- MDVSA-2012:163 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785967 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- firefox-nswavereader-bo(79163) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- USN-1611-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- DSA-2569 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_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)
Record last updated .