CVE-2012-4184

Published: 09 October 2012

The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 does not prevent access to properties of a prototype for a standard class, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges 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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