CVE-2012-5836

HIGH 7.5CVE-2012-5836 · Published 21/11/2012 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2012-5836 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting firefox (mozilla), seamonkey (mozilla), thunderbird (mozilla).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.5%, higher than 91.4% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 17.0, 2.14 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
firefox mozilla	`< 17.0`	`17.0`
seamonkey mozilla	`< 2.14`	`2.14`
thunderbird mozilla	`< 17.0`	`17.0`

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving the setting of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) properties in conjunction with SVG text.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00021.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00090.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00092.html · Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html · Mailing List
osvdb.org/87593 · Broken Link
secunia.com/advisories/51369 · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/51370 · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/51381 · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/51434 · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/51439 · Third Party Advisory
secunia.com/advisories/51440

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