CVE-2012-4181

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsSMILAnimationController::DoSample function in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

• CWE-416

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/86100Broken Link
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50856Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50892Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50904Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50935Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50936Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55318Third Party Advisory
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:163Third Party Advisory
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-85.htmlVendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56130Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786111Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79159Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16523Third Party Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• http://osvdb.org/86100Broken Link
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.htmlThird Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50856Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50892Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50904Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50935Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50936Third Party Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/55318Third Party Advisory
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:163Third Party Advisory
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-85.htmlVendor Advisory
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56130Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1Third Party Advisory
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786111Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79159Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16523Third Party Advisory

Published

Oct 10, 2012

Last Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Status

Modified

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