National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-2366

Overview

Mozilla Gecko before 5.0, as used in Firefox before 5.0 and Thunderbird before 5.0, does not block use of a cross-domain image as a WebGL texture, which allows remote attackers to obtain approximate copies of arbitrary images via a timing attack involving a crafted WebGL fragment shader.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/06/cross-domain-webgl-textures-disabled-in-firefox-5/

Hyperlink:https://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/06/cross-domain-webgl-textures-disabled-in-firefox-5/

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/WebGL/Cross-Domain_Textures

Hyperlink:https://developer.mozilla.org/en/WebGL/Cross-Domain_Textures

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659349

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659349

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656277

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656277

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655987

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655987

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-25.html

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-25.html

External Source: MISC

Name: http://www.contextis.co.uk/resources/blog/webgl/

Hyperlink:http://www.contextis.co.uk/resources/blog/webgl/

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14221

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14221

External Source: MLIST

Name: [whatwg] 20110314 Canvas and drawWindow

Hyperlink:http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-March/030882.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2011:028

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00001.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14221

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14221