CVE-2012-0472

Publication date 25 April 2012

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

The cairo-dwrite implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.9, when certain Windows Vista and Windows 7 configurations are used, does not properly restrict font-rendering attempts, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
firefox 11.10 oneiric
Not affected
11.04 natty
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
seamonkey 11.10 oneiric
Not affected
11.04 natty
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
thunderbird 11.10 oneiric
Not affected
11.04 natty
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
xulrunner-1.9.2 11.10 oneiric Not in release
11.04 natty
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
xulrunner-2.0 11.10 oneiric Not in release
11.04 natty Ignored end of life
10.04 LTS lucid Not in release
8.04 LTS hardy Not in release

Notes

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Windows only