CVE-2012-5840 Information

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsTextEditorState::PrepareEditor function in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0 Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11 Thunderbird before 17.0 Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11 and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (heap memory corruption) via unspecified vectors a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4214.

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html http://osvdb.org/87606 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1482.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1483.html http://secunia.com/advisories/51359 http://secunia.com/advisories/51360 http://secunia.com/advisories/51369 http://secunia.com/advisories/51370 http://secunia.com/advisories/51381 http://secunia.com/advisories/51434 http://secunia.com/advisories/51439 http://secunia.com/advisories/51440 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:173 http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-105.html http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56635 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=805287 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/80190 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A16904