PT-2012-6145

CVE-2012-5838

Published

2012-11-20

Updated

2024-10-21

Description by

CVSS 2.0

9.3

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 17.0 Thunderbird versions prior to 17.0 SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.14

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service, resulting in memory corruption and application crash, via large image dimensions in the copyTexImage2D implementation in the WebGL subsystem.

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 17.0, update to version 17.0 or later. For Thunderbird versions prior to 17.0, update to version 17.0 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 2.14, update to version 2.14 or later.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Researchers

Miaubiz

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Related identifiers

CVE-2012-5838