CVE-2012-3983 (GCVE-0-2012-3983)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-10-10 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 20:21
VLAI
Summary
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the browser engine in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Thunderbird before 16.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2012-10-09 00:00
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