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MFSA2012-62 Firefox: WebGL use-after-free and memory corruption (CVE-2012-3967)

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MFSA2012-62 Firefox: WebGL use-after-free and memory corruption (CVE-2012-3967)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
08/29/2012
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/30/2012
Modified
08/17/2020

Description

The WebGL implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 on Linux, when a large number of sampler uniforms are used, does not properly interact with Mesa drivers, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) via a crafted web site.

Solution(s)

  • mozilla-firefox-esr-upgrade-10_0_7
  • mozilla-firefox-upgrade-15_0

References

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