CVE-2012-0470: Mozilla Firefox

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 10.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the nsSVGFEDiffuseLightingElement::LightPixel function in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 11.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, Thunderbird 5.0 through 11.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.4, and SeaMonkey before 2.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid gfxImageSurface free operation) or possibly execute arbitrary code by leveraging the use of "different number systems."

Affected products

• Mozilla Firefox: version 4.0 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; …
• Mozilla Seamonkey: up to and including 2.9; version 1.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only; version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; …
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: version 10.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only; version 10.0.4 only

Published 2012-04-25. Last modified 2026-06-16.