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CVE-2011-2988

N/A

Published: August 18, 2011 at 06:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:32 PM UTC

3 products affected across 1 vendorFirefoxThunderbirdSeamonkey

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 6%

Description

Buffer overflow in an unspecified string class in the WebGL shader implementation in Mozilla Firefox 4.x through 5, Thunderbird before 6, SeaMonkey 2.x before 2.3, and possibly other products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long source-code block for a shader.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Firefox · Mozilla

95%

4.0 4.0 beta1 4.0 beta10 4.0 beta11 4.0 beta12 4.0 beta2 4.0 beta3 4.0 beta4 4.0 beta5 4.0 beta6 4.0 beta7 4.0 beta8 4.0 beta9 4.0.1 5.0

Thunderbird · Mozilla

95%

v ≤ 5.0

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (8)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE

Source: [email protected]

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA

Source: [email protected]

http://secunia.com/advisories/49055

x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-29.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-31.html

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-33.html

VDB Entryx_refsource_BID

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49242

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Source: [email protected]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665936

VDB EntrySignaturex_refsource_OVAL

Source: [email protected]

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14270

CVSS

10HIGH[email protected]

Confidentiality: COMPLETE
Integrity: COMPLETE
Availability: COMPLETE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-119

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