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critical 9.3

CVE-2012-3988 json

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x…

published 2012-10-10 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-3932

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.2%
EPSS 5.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability 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 might allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving use of mozRequestFullScreen to enter full-screen mode, and use of the history.back method for backwards history navigation.

Patch / fix

  • mozilla firefox 10.0.8, 16.0
  • mozilla thunderbird_esr 10.0.8
  • mozilla thunderbird 16.0
  • mozilla seamonkey 2.13
  • thunderbird RHEL 5 PRODUCTIVITY, RHEL 5 10.0.8-1.el5_8
  • thunderbird RHEL 6 10.0.8-1.el6_3
  • firefox RHEL 5 10.0.8-1.el5_8
  • firefox RHEL 6 10.0.8-1.el6_3
  • xulrunner RHEL 5 10.0.8-1.el5_8
  • xulrunner RHEL 6 10.0.8-1.el6_3

red hat advisories RHSA-2012:1351RHSA-2012:1350

  • firefox-esr openSUSE Tumbleweed 128.5.1-1.1
  • MozillaFirefox openSUSE Tumbleweed 50.1.0-1.1
  • MozillaThunderbird openSUSE Tumbleweed 45.5.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10071-1openSUSE-SU-2024:10230-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-3988 updated cvss 6.8

Mozilla: DOS and crash with full screen and history navigation (MFSA 2012-79)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) firefox 10.0.8-1.el5_8, xulrunner 10.0.8-1.el5_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) firefox 10.0.8-1.el5_8, xulrunner 10.0.8-1.el5_8, thunderbird 10.0.8-1.el5_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 6) firefox 10.0.8-1.el6_3, xulrunner 10.0.8-1.el6_3, thunderbird 10.0.8-1.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 10.0.8-1.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux HPC Node Optional (v. 6) firefox 10.0.8-1.el6_3, xulrunner 10.0.8-1.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) firefox 10.0.8-1.el6_3, xulrunner 10.0.8-1.el6_3
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 10.0.8-1.el6_3, thunderbird 10.0.8-1.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) firefox 10.0.8-1.el6_3, xulrunner 10.0.8-1.el6_3, thunderbird 10.0.8-1.el6_3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 6) xulrunner 10.0.8-1.el6_3 Red Hat RHEL Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) xulrunner 10.0.8-1.el5_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:1350
  • Red Hat RHEL Optional Productivity Applications (v. 5 server) thunderbird 10.0.8-1.el5_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:1351

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Exploit prediction

5.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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