CVE-2012-0470: mozilla firefox
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2012-0470 is a high (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability in mozilla firefox. EPSS estimates a 10.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95.6% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 10, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 8 · Related 3Timeline
- 25-04-2012PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsSVGFEDiffuseLightingElement::LightPixel function in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid gfxImageSurface free operation) or possibly execute arbitrary code by leveraging the use of "different number systems."
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
10.17%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
96%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Decrease -0.08 pp
From 10.26% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Mozilla4 products
- firefox4.0 | 4.0:beta1 | 4.0:beta10 | 4.0:beta11 | 4.0:beta12 | 4.0:beta2 | 4.0:beta3 | 4.0:beta4 | 4.0:beta5 | 4.0:beta6 | 4.0:beta7 | 4.0:beta8 | 4.0:beta9 | 4.0.1 | 5.0 | 5.0.1 | 6.0 | 6.0.1 | 6.0.2 | 7.0 | 7.0.1 | 8.0 | 8.0.1 | 9.0 | 9.0.1 | 10.0 | 10.0.1 | 10.0.2 | 11.0 | 10.0.3
- seamonkey≤ 2.9 | 1.0 | 1.0:alpha | 1.0:beta | 1.0.1 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.3 | 1.0.4 | 1.0.5 | 1.0.6 | 1.0.7 | 1.0.8 | 1.0.9 | 1.1 | 1.1:alpha | 1.1:beta | 1.1.1 | 1.1.2 | 1.1.3 | 1.1.4 | 1.1.5 | 1.1.6 | 1.1.7 | 1.1.8 | 1.1.9 | 1.1.10 | 1.1.11 | 1.1.12 | 1.1.13 | 1.1.14 | 1.1.15 | 1.1.16 | 1.1.17 | 1.1.18 | 1.1.19 | 1.5.0.8 | 1.5.0.9 | 1.5.0.10 | 2.0 | 2.0:alpha_1 | 2.0:alpha_2 | 2.0:alpha_3 | 2.0:beta_1 | 2.0:beta_2 | 2.0:rc1 | 2.0:rc2 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 2.0.3 | 2.0.4 | 2.0.5 | 2.0.6 | 2.0.7 | 2.0.8 | 2.0.9 | 2.0.10 | 2.0.11 | 2.0.12 | 2.0.13 | 2.0.14 | 2.1 | 2.1:alpha1 | 2.1:alpha2 | 2.1:alpha3 | 2.1:beta1 | 2.1:beta2 | 2.1:beta3 | 2.1:rc1 | 2.1:rc2 | 2.2 | 2.2:beta1 | 2.2:beta2 | 2.2:beta3 | 2.3 | 2.3:beta1 | 2.3:beta2 | 2.3:beta3 | 2.3.1 | 2.3.2 | 2.3.3 | 2.4 | 2.4:beta1 | 2.4:beta2 | 2.4:beta3 | 2.4.1 | 2.5 | 2.5:beta1 | 2.5:beta2 | 2.5:beta3 | 2.5:beta4 | 2.6 | 2.6:beta1 | 2.6:beta2 | 2.6:beta3 | 2.6:beta4 | 2.6.1 | 2.7 | 2.7:beta1 | 2.7:beta2 | 2.7:beta3 | 2.7:beta4 | 2.7:beta5 | 2.7.1 | 2.7.2 | 2.8 | 2.8:beta1 | 2.8:beta2 | 2.8:beta3 | 2.8:beta4 | 2.8:beta5 | 2.8:beta6 | 2.9:beta1 | 2.9:beta2
- thunderbird5.0 | 6.0 | 6.0.1 | 6.0.2 | 7.0 | 7.0.1 | 8.0 | 9.0 | 9.0.1 | 10.0 | 10.0.1 | 10.0.2 | 10.0.3 | 10.0.4 | 11.0
- thunderbird_esr10.0 | 10.0.1 | 10.0.2 | 10.0.3 | 10.0.4
1 vendor · 4 products
References
14 links- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16989VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL
- bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=734288X Refsource CONFIRM
