libvorbis, libvorbisidec — security advisory
Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.26 and 4.x through 9.0, Thunderbird before 3.1.18 and 5.0 through 9.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.7 do not properly initialize nsChildView data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Ogg Vorbis file.
- Products
- libvorbis, libvorbisidec
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.0.2+svn18153-0.1, 1.3.2-1.2
- CVEs
- CVE-2012-0444
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 22:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Mozilla Firefox before 3.6.26 and 4.x through 9.0, Thunderbird before 3.1.18 and 5.0 through 9.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.7 do not properly initialize nsChildView data structures, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted Ogg Vorbis file.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2012-0444
libvorbis
Fixed versions: 1.3.2-1.2
libvorbis
Fixed versions: 1.3.2-1.2
libvorbis
Fixed versions: 1.3.2-1.2
libvorbisidec
Fixed versions: 1.0.2+svn18153-0.1
libvorbisidec
Fixed versions: 1.0.2+svn18153-0.1
libvorbisidec
Fixed versions: 1.0.2+svn18153-0.1
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-23T17:47:29.461589371Z",
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