VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-3966

critical
Published 2012-08-29 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a negative height value in a BMP image within a .ICO file, related to (1) improper handling of the transparency bitmask by the nsICODecoder component and (2) improper processing of the alpha channel by the nsBMPDecoder component.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-61.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozillafirefox10.0
mozillafirefox10.0.1
mozillafirefox10.0.2
mozillafirefox10.0.3
mozillafirefox10.0.4
mozillafirefox10.0.5
mozillafirefox10.0.6
mozillafirefox{"endIncluding":"14.0"}
mozillafirefox1.0
mozillafirefox1.0.1
mozillafirefox1.0.2
mozillafirefox1.0.3
mozillafirefox1.0.4
mozillafirefox1.0.5
mozillafirefox1.0.6
mozillafirefox1.0.7
mozillafirefox1.0.8
mozillafirefox1.4.1
mozillafirefox1.5
mozillafirefox1.5.0.1
mozillafirefox1.5.0.2
mozillafirefox1.5.0.3
mozillafirefox1.5.0.4
mozillafirefox1.5.0.5
mozillafirefox1.5.0.6
mozillafirefox1.5.0.7
mozillafirefox1.5.0.8
mozillafirefox1.5.0.9
mozillafirefox1.5.0.10
mozillafirefox1.5.0.11
mozillafirefox1.5.0.12
mozillafirefox1.5.1
mozillafirefox1.5.2
mozillafirefox1.5.3
mozillafirefox1.5.4
mozillafirefox1.5.5
mozillafirefox1.5.6
mozillafirefox1.5.7
mozillafirefox1.5.8
mozillafirefox1.8
mozillafirefox2.0
mozillafirefox2.0.0.1
mozillafirefox2.0.0.2
mozillafirefox2.0.0.3
mozillafirefox2.0.0.4
mozillafirefox2.0.0.5
mozillafirefox2.0.0.6
mozillafirefox2.0.0.7
mozillafirefox2.0.0.8
mozillafirefox2.0.0.9
mozillafirefox2.0.0.10
mozillafirefox2.0.0.11
mozillafirefox2.0.0.12
mozillafirefox2.0.0.13
mozillafirefox2.0.0.14
mozillafirefox2.0.0.15
mozillafirefox2.0.0.16
mozillafirefox2.0.0.17
mozillafirefox2.0.0.18
mozillafirefox2.0.0.19
mozillafirefox2.0.0.20
mozillafirefox3.0
mozillafirefox3.0.1
mozillafirefox3.0.2
mozillafirefox3.0.3
mozillafirefox3.0.4
mozillafirefox3.0.5
mozillafirefox3.0.6
mozillafirefox3.0.7
mozillafirefox3.0.8
mozillafirefox3.0.9
mozillafirefox3.0.10
mozillafirefox3.0.11
mozillafirefox3.0.12
mozillafirefox3.0.13
mozillafirefox3.0.14
mozillafirefox3.0.15
mozillafirefox3.0.16
mozillafirefox3.0.17
mozillafirefox3.5
mozillafirefox3.5.1
mozillafirefox3.5.2
mozillafirefox3.5.3
mozillafirefox3.5.4
mozillafirefox3.5.5
mozillafirefox3.5.6
mozillafirefox3.5.7
mozillafirefox3.5.8
mozillafirefox3.5.9
mozillafirefox3.5.10
mozillafirefox3.5.11
mozillafirefox3.5.12
mozillafirefox3.5.13
mozillafirefox3.5.14
mozillafirefox3.5.15
mozillafirefox3.6
mozillafirefox3.6.2
mozillafirefox3.6.3
mozillafirefox3.6.4
mozillafirefox3.6.6
mozillafirefox3.6.7
mozillafirefox3.6.8
mozillafirefox3.6.9
mozillafirefox3.6.10
mozillafirefox3.6.11
mozillafirefox3.6.12
mozillafirefox3.6.13
mozillafirefox3.6.14
mozillafirefox3.6.15
mozillafirefox3.6.16
mozillafirefox3.6.17
mozillafirefox3.6.18
mozillafirefox3.6.19
mozillafirefox3.6.20
mozillafirefox3.6.21
mozillafirefox3.6.22
mozillafirefox3.6.23
mozillafirefox3.6.24
mozillafirefox3.6.25
mozillafirefox4.0
mozillafirefox4.0.1
mozillafirefox5.0
mozillafirefox5.0.1
mozillafirefox6.0
mozillafirefox6.0.1
mozillafirefox6.0.2
mozillafirefox7.0
mozillafirefox7.0.1
mozillafirefox8.0
mozillafirefox8.0.1
mozillafirefox9.0
mozillafirefox9.0.1
mozillafirefox11.0
mozillafirefox12.0
mozillafirefox13.0
mozillathunderbird{"endIncluding":"14.0"}
mozillathunderbird1.0
mozillathunderbird1.0.1
mozillathunderbird1.0.2
mozillathunderbird1.0.3
mozillathunderbird1.0.4
mozillathunderbird1.0.5
mozillathunderbird1.0.6
mozillathunderbird1.0.7
mozillathunderbird1.0.8
mozillathunderbird1.5
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.1
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.2
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.3
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.4
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.5
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.6
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.7
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.8
mozillaseamonkey2.7
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.9
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.10
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.11
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.12
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.13
mozillathunderbird1.5.0.14
mozillathunderbird1.5.1
mozillathunderbird1.5.2
mozillathunderbird1.7.1
mozillathunderbird1.7.3
mozillathunderbird2.0
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.0
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.1
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.2
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.3
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.4
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.5
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.6
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.7
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.8
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.9
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.11
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.12
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.13
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.14
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.15
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.16
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.17
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.18
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.19
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.20
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.21
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.22
mozillathunderbird2.0.0.23
mozillathunderbird3.0
mozillathunderbird3.0.1
mozillathunderbird3.0.2
mozillathunderbird3.0.3
mozillathunderbird3.0.4
mozillathunderbird3.0.5
mozillathunderbird3.0.6
mozillathunderbird3.0.7
mozillathunderbird3.0.8
mozillathunderbird3.0.9
mozillathunderbird3.0.10

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.