CVE-2012-1942

N/A Unknown

Published: June 05, 2012 Modified: April 29, 2026

Description

The Mozilla Updater and Windows Updater Service in Mozilla Firefox 12.0, Thunderbird 12.0, and SeaMonkey 2.9 on Windows allow local users to gain privileges by loading a DLL file in a privileged context.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-35.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-45.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=748764

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16951

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-06/msg00012.html