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CVE-2012-0444: Mozilla Firefox: Memory corruption

CVE-2012-0444 has a CVSS v2 base score of 10.0 (the maximum on that scale) and affects Mozilla Firefox, along with 6 other products in NVD’s configuration data. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available.

Vulnerability description

Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.26 and 4.x through 9.0, Thunderbird before 3.1.18 and 5.0 through 9.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.7 do not properly initialize nsChildView data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Ogg Vorbis file.

Severity breakdown

CVSS v2.0 10.0: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network.
Access complexity: Low. No special conditions are required.
Authentication: None. No authentication is needed.
Confidentiality impact: Complete. Total information disclosure.
Integrity impact: Complete. Total loss of integrity.
Availability impact: Complete. Total shutdown of the component.

Underlying weakness

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: before 3.6.26; from 4.0 before 10.0
Mozilla Seamonkey: before 2.7
Mozilla Thunderbird: before 3.1.18; from 5.0 before 10.0
Debian Linux: 5.0; 6.0
Opensuse: 11.4
Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 10 sp4; 11 sp1
Suse Linux Enterprise Server: 10 sp4; 11 sp1
Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 10 sp4; 11 sp1
Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 10.04; 10.10; 11.04; 11.10