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Status published
Medium
CVE-2012-0447
Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 9.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 9.0, and...
Vulnerability Description
Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 9.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 9.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.7 do not properly initialize data for image/vnd.microsoft.icon images, which allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information by reading a PNG image that was created through conversion from an ICO image.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=710079
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/72856
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14912
- http://secunia.com/advisories/49055
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-06.html
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:013
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00011.html
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Affected Vendor
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firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey
Vulnerable Versions:
4.0, 4.0.1, 5.0, 5.0.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 7.0, 8.0, 8.0.1, 9.0, 0, 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.0.8, 1.0.9, 1.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.1.4, 1.1.5, 1.1.6, 1.1.7, 1.1.8, 1.1.9, 1.1.10, 1.1.11, 1.1.12, 1.1.13, 1.1.14, 1.1.15, 1.1.16, 1.1.17, 1.1.18, 1.1.19, 2., 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5, 2.0.6, 2.0.7, 2.0.8, 2.0.9, 2.0.10, 2.0.11, 2.0.12, 2.0.13, 2.0.14, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.4, 2.4.1, 2.5, 2.6, 2.6.1, 2.7
Timeline
Official Publish:
February 1st, 2012
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.