CVE-2012-3966 - CVE House
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Status published Critical CVE-2012-3966

Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird...

Vulnerability 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.

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

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

firefox, thunderbird, seamonkey, thunderbird esr
Vulnerable Versions:
10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.0.4, 10.0.5, 10.0.6, 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, 1.4.1, 1.5, 1.5.0.1, 1.5.0.2, 1.5.0.3, 1.5.0.4, 1.5.0.5, 1.5.0.6, 1.5.0.7, 1.5.0.8, 1.5.0.9, 1.5.0.10, 1.5.0.11, 1.5.0.12, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3, 1.5.4, 1.5.5, 1.5.6, 1.5.7, 1.5.8, 1.8, 2.0, 2.0.0.1, 2.0.0.2, 2.0.0.3, 2.0.0.4, 2.0.0.5, 2.0.0.6, 2.0.0.7, 2.0.0.8, 2.0.0.9, 2.0.0.10, 2.0.0.11, 2.0.0.12, 2.0.0.13, 2.0.0.14, 2.0.0.15, 2.0.0.16, 2.0.0.17, 2.0.0.18, 2.0.0.19, 2.0.0.20, 3.0, 3.0.1, 3.0.2, 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 3.0.6, 3.0.7, 3.0.8, 3.0.9, 3.0.10, 3.0.11, 3.0.12, 3.0.13, 3.0.14, 3.0.15, 3.0.16, 3.0.17, 3.5, 3.5.1, 3.5.2, 3.5.3, 3.5.4, 3.5.5, 3.5.6, 3.5.7, 3.5.8, 3.5.9, 3.5.10, 3.5.11, 3.5.12, 3.5.13, 3.5.14, 3.5.15, 3.6, 3.6.2, 3.6.3, 3.6.4, 3.6.6, 3.6.7, 3.6.8, 3.6.9, 3.6.10, 3.6.11, 3.6.12, 3.6.13, 3.6.14, 3.6.15, 3.6.16, 3.6.17, 3.6.18, 3.6.19, 3.6.20, 3.6.21, 3.6.22, 3.6.23, 3.6.24, 3.6.25, 4.0, 4.0.1, 5.0, 5.0.1, 6.0, 6.0.1, 6.0.2, 7.0, 7.0.1, 8.0, 8.0.1, 9.0, 9.0.1, 11.0, 12.0, 13.0, 1.5.0.13, 1.5.0.14, 1.7.1, 1.7.3, 2.0.0.0, 2.0.0.21, 2.0.0.22, 2.0.0.23, 3.1, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.1.4, 3.1.5, 3.1.6, 3.1.7, 3.1.8, 3.1.9, 3.1.10, 3.1.11, 3.1.12, 3.1.13, 3.1.14, 3.1.15, 3.1.16, 3.1.17, 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, 2.7.1, 2.7.2, 2.8, 2.9, 2.10

Timeline

Official Publish: August 29th, 2012
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

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