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Unscored CVE-2012-0472 EUVD-2012-0504GHSA-555h-vj7w-v68w

The cairo-dwrite implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, Thunderb…

Published Apr 25, 2012 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

The cairo-dwrite implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.9, when certain Windows Vista and Windows 7 configurations are used, does not properly restrict font-rendering attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Red Hat

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
RHEL 6 firefox +3 10.0.4-1.el6_2 RHSA-2012:0516, RHSA-2012:0515
RHEL 5 firefox +3 10.0.4-1.el5_8 RHSA-2012:0516, RHSA-2012:0515
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Rhel Productivity 5 thunderbird 10.0.4-1.el5_8 RHSA-2012:0516

openSUSE

Security tracker ↗
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed MozillaFirefox 50.1.0-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed MozillaThunderbird 45.5.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed firefox-esr 128.5.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

Advisories 5

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