CVE-2012-3983

critical
Published 2012-10-10 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790865

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=768313

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=762920

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=634444

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-74.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu10.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu11.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu11.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
suse suse10affected
suse suse11affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozillafirefox{"endExcluding":"16.0"}16.0
mozillaseamonkey{"endExcluding":"2.13"}2.13
mozillathunderbird{"endExcluding":"16.0"}16.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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