CVE-2012-4184 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2012-4184?

CVE-2012-4184 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 10 Oct 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

The Chrome Object Wrapper (COW) implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 16.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, Thunderbird before 16.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.8, and SeaMonkey before 2.13 does not prevent access to properties of a prototype for a standard class, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary JavaScript code with chrome privileges via a crafted web site.

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-4184?

It affects 12 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Seamonkey, Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Thunderbird Esr, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop and 6 more.

How do I fix CVE-2012-4184?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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

Is CVE-2012-4184 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-4184 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-j9vm-hppw-gg7g.