VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-0447

medium
Published 2012-02-01 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 9.0, Thunderbird 5.0 through 9.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.7 do not properly initialize data for image/vnd.microsoft.icon images, which allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information by reading a PNG image that was created through conversion from an ICO image.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozilla mozillafirefox4.0
mozilla mozillafirefox4.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox5.0
mozilla mozillafirefox5.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox6.0
mozilla mozillafirefox6.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox6.0.2
mozilla mozillafirefox7.0
mozilla mozillafirefox8.0
mozilla mozillafirefox8.0.1
mozilla mozillafirefox9.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird5.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird6.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird6.0.1
mozilla mozillathunderbird6.0.2
mozilla mozillathunderbird7.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird8.0
mozilla mozillathunderbird9.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey{"endIncluding":"2.7"}
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.6
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.7
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.8
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.0.9
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.6
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.7
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.8
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.9
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.10
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.11
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.12
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.13
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.14
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.15
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.16
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.17
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.18
mozilla mozillaseamonkey1.1.19
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.6
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.7
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.8
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.9
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.10
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.11
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.12
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.13
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.0.14
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.3.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.3.2
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.3.3
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.4
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.4.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.5
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.6
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.6.1
mozilla mozillaseamonkey2.7

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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