CVE-2012-0472

critical

Description

The cairo-dwrite implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.9, when certain Windows Vista and Windows 7 configurations are used, does not properly restrict font-rendering attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

References

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A17067

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=744480

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/53218

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-25.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:081

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:066

http://secunia.com/advisories/49055

http://secunia.com/advisories/48972

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-04-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical