CVE-2012-0444

N/A Unknown

Published: February 01, 2012 Modified: April 29, 2026

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.26 and 4.x through 9.0, Thunderbird before 3.1.18 and 5.0 through 9.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.7 do not properly initialize nsChildView data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Ogg Vorbis file.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00003.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00007.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00011.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Mailing List Third Party Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/48043

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/48095

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2400

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2402

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2406

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:013

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-07.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/51753

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1370-1

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=719612

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit Issue Tracking Patch Vendor Advisory

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72858

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14464

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00003.html