CVE-2012-3971

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2012-08-28
Bugzilla:
851923: CVE-2012-3971 Mozilla: Graphite 2 memory corruption (MFSA 2012-64)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) Graphite 2, as used in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Thunderbird before 15.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.12, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via vectors related to the (1) Silf::readClassMap and (2) Pass::readPass functions.

Find out more about CVE-2012-3971 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue does not affect the version of Firefox and Thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 5.1
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 thunderbird Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 firefox Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 thunderbird Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges security researcher Christoph Diehl as the original reporter of this flaw.

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