CVE-2012-3969
Integer overflow in the nsSVGFEMorphologyElement::Filter function in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted SVG filter that triggers an incorrect sum calculation, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 4.8% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-3913)
- Published
- August 29, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-3913 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mozilla / firefox
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References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1210.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1211.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2553
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2554
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2556
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-63.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55292
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2
- http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=782141
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16635
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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