01 Record

CVE-2012-4181

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsSMILAnimationController::DoSample function in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre

CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

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02 Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsSMILAnimationController::DoSample function in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation: Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision: Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability: 4.80% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile: Equal to or higher than the score of 91.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score: The NVD has published no score for this record
NVD CVSS vector: No NVD score to derive
NVD analysis status: Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
Red Hat severity: Critical. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published

2012-10-10 17:00Z14 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 20:28Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2012-08-08

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

CWE-416Use After FreeVariant
CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase

Data version

5.1

Document digest

ffed669e4f9f77b0eb4ae363cd7ae58f1f6aeb672fca83471966e6d1992c8e8a

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms

canonicalubuntu_linuxNot specified—

mozillafirefoxNot specified—

mozillaseamonkeyNot specified—

mozillathunderbirdNot specified—

mozillathunderbird_esrNot specified—

redhatenterprise_linuxNot specified—

redhatenterprise_linux_desktopNot specified—

redhatenterprise_linux_eusNot specified—

redhatenterprise_linux_serverNot specified—

redhatenterprise_linux_workstationNot specified—

06 References

secunia.com50904http://secunia.com/advisories/50904third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
secunia.com50935http://secunia.com/advisories/50935third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
osvdb.org86100http://osvdb.org/86100vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
bugzilla.mozilla.orghttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786111x_refsource_CONFIRM
secunia.com50856http://secunia.com/advisories/50856third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
secunia.com50892http://secunia.com/advisories/50892third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2012:1351http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1351.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:16523https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16523vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
secunia.com50936http://secunia.com/advisories/50936third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
www.securityfocus.com56130http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56130vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
secunia.com55318http://secunia.com/advisories/55318third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SU-2012:1351http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00010.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2012:163http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2012:163vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comfirefox-nssmilanimationcontroller-code-exec(79159)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79159vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
www.ubuntu.comUSN-1611-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1611-1vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
www.mozilla.orghttp://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-85.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM