CVE-2012-3989

Published: 09 October 2012

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Thunderbird before 16.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 do not properly perform a cast of an unspecified variable during use of the instanceof operator on a JavaScript object, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (assertion failure) via a crafted web site.

Priority

Medium

Status

Package Release Status
firefox
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (16.0)
seamonkey
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (2.13)
thunderbird
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream
Released (16.0)
xulrunner-1.9.2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian 		Upstream Needs triage

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