Check Point Advisories

Mozilla Multiple Products Ogg Vorbis Decoding Memory Corruption (CVE-2012-0444)

Check Point Reference: CPAI-2012-181
Date Published: 14 May 2012
Severity: High
Last Updated: Friday 22 November, 2024
Source: CVE-2012-0444
Protection Provided by:

Security Gateway
R75
Who is Vulnerable? Mozilla Foundation Firefox prior to 10.0
Mozilla Foundation Firefox prior to 3.6.26
Mozilla Foundation SeaMonkey prior to 2.7
Mozilla Foundation Thunderbird prior to 10.0
Mozilla Foundation Thunderbird prior to 3.1.18
Vulnerability Description A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and Seamonkey.
Vulnerability DetailsThe vulnerability is due to a memory corruption condition caused while decoding specially crafted Ogg Vorbis files. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a target user to open a specially crafted Ogg Vorbis file with an affected Mozilla product. Successful exploitation would allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system.

Protection Overview

This protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your product to the latest update. For information on how to update , go to SBP-2006-05, Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R75 / R71 / R70

  1. In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Mozilla Multiple Products Ogg Vorbis Decoding Memory Corruption protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
  2. Install policy on all modules.

SmartView Tracker will log the following entries:
Attack Name: Web Client Enforcement Violation
Attack Information: Mozilla Multiple Products Ogg Vorbis Decoding Memory Corruption

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