CVE-2011-2366

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.3 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2011-06-30

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected products

• Firefox (Mozilla)
• Gecko (Mozilla)
• Thunderbird (Mozilla)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-07/msg00001.html
• http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/2011-March/030882.html
• http://www.contextis.co.uk/resources/blog/webgl/
• http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-25.html
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=655987
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=656277
• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=659349
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/WebGL/Cross-Domain_Textures
• https://hacks.mozilla.org/2011/06/cross-domain-webgl-textures-disabled-in-firefox-5/
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14221