Buffer overflow in Mozilla Firefox
CVE-2012-5833
The texImage2D implementation in the WebGL subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 does not properly interact with Mesa drivers, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via function calls involving certain values of the level parameter.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.048 (91.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.048 · newest: 0.048 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Mozilla Firefox
- Mozilla Seamonkey
- Mozilla Thunderbird
- Mozilla Thunderbird Esr
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 10.04, 11.10, 12.04
- openSUSE — versions 11.4, 12.1, 12.2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop — versions 5.0, 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus — versions 6.3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server — versions 5.0, 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation — versions 5.0, 6.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-3 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/51370 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1638-2 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00093.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1636-1 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00022.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1483.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- osvdb.org/87581 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1482.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/51434 (Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)