CVE-2012-3979 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2012-3979?

CVE-2012-3979 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Google Android, published on 29 Aug 2012. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Mozilla Firefox before 15.0 on Android does not properly implement unspecified callers of the __android_log_print function, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted web page that calls the JavaScript dump function.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-3979?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Google Android, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Firefox Mobile.

How do I fix CVE-2012-3979?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-3979 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2012-3979 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-3979 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-85fc-m2vq-4r26.