CVE-2012-0454

N/A Unknown
Published: March 14, 2012 Modified: April 29, 2026
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Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 on 32-bit Windows 7 platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving use of the file-open dialog in a child window, related to the IUnknown_QueryService function in the Windows shlwapi.dll library.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00014.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/48402
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/48561
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://secunia.com/advisories/48629
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:032
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-12.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026801
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026803
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026804
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684555
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14258
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-03/msg00014.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/48402
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/48561
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://secunia.com/advisories/48629
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:032
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-12.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026801
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026803
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1026804
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684555
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14258
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

22 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
3.4%
87th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-399

Affected Vendors

mozilla microsoft

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