Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows 7 platforms

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird on Windows 7 platforms

CVE-2012-0454 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Use-after-free vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 10.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, Thunderbird 5.0 through 10.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.3, and SeaMonkey before 2.8 on 32-bit Windows 7 platforms allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors involving use of the file-open dialog in a child window, related to the IUnknown_QueryService function in the Windows shlwapi.dll library.

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