Description
Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving the setting of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) properties in conjunction with SVG text.
Published: 2012-11-21
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 1.4% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-5714 Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Thunderbird before 17.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via vectors involving the setting of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) properties in conjunction with SVG text.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1636-1 Thunderbird vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-1638-1 Firefox vulnerabilities
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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Mozilla Firefox Seamonkey Thunderbird
Opensuse Opensuse
Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop Linux Enterprise Server Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T21:21:26.688Z

Reserved: 2012-11-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-5836

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Status : Modified

Published: 2012-11-21T12:55:03.493

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-5836

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2012-11-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2012-5836 - Bugzilla

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