CVE-2012-3966

N/A Unknown
Published: August 29, 2012 Modified: April 29, 2026
View on NVD

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a negative height value in a BMP image within a .ICO file, related to (1) improper handling of the transparency bitmask by the nsICODecoder component and (2) improper processing of the alpha channel by the nsBMPDecoder component.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1210.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1211.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-61.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775793
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775794
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16246
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1210.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1211.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-61.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775793
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775794
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16246
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

24 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
5.2%
91th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-119

Affected Vendors

mozilla

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