National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-3653

Overview

Mozilla Firefox before 8.0 and Thunderbird before 8.0 on Mac OS X do not properly interact with the GPU memory behavior of a certain driver for Intel integrated GPUs, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy and read image data via vectors related to WebGL textures.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: CONFIRM

Name: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684882

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684882

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-51.html

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-51.html

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13347

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13347

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SU-2011:1256

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00020.html

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13347

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

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:13347