CVE-2012-4196: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 3.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mozilla Firefox before 16.0.2, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.10, Thunderbird before 16.0.2, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.13.2 allow remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read the Location object via a prototype property-injection attack that defeats certain protection mechanisms for this object.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 10.04 only; version 11.04 only; version 11.10 only; version 12.04 only; version 12.10 only
• Mozilla Firefox: before 16.0.2 (fixed in 16.0.2); from 10.0, before 10.0.10 (fixed in 10.0.10)
• Mozilla Seamonkey: before 2.13.2 (fixed in 2.13.2)
• Mozilla Thunderbird: before 16.0.2 (fixed in 16.0.2)
• Mozilla Thunderbird ESR: from 10.0, before 10.0.10 (fixed in 10.0.10)
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.4 only; version 12.1 only; version 12.2 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 6.3 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: version 10 only; version 11 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Server: version 10 only; version 11 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: version 10 only; version 11 only

Published 2012-10-29. Last modified 2026-06-16.