CVE-2011-3457

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-02-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The OpenGL implementation in Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.3 does not properly perform OpenGL Shading Language (aka GLSL) compilation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted program.

Affected products

macOS: through 10.7.2; 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4, 10.6.5 (+5)
Apple Mac Os X Server: through 10.7.2; 10.6.0, 10.6.1, 10.6.2, 10.6.3, 10.6.4, 10.6.5 (+5)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Sep/msg00003.html
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5503

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