CVE-2011-2988

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-08-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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 products

Mozilla Firefox: 4.0, 4.0-beta1, 4.0-beta10, 4.0-beta11, 4.0-beta12, 4.0-beta2 (+9)
Mozilla Seamonkey: 2.0, 2.0-alpha_1, 2.0-alpha_2, 2.0-alpha_3, 2.0-beta_1, 2.0-beta_2 (+29)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 5.0

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49055
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-29.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-31.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-33.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/49242
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=665936
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14270
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00023.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/49055
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-29.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-31.html

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