CVE-2011-3653

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-11-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

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.

Affected products

Mozilla Firefox: through 7.0.1; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+117)
Mozilla Thunderbird: through 7.0.1; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6 (+89)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00020.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-51.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684882
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13347
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-11/msg00020.html
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-51.html
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684882
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A13347

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