CVE-2012-5833
The texImage2D implementation in the WebGL subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before…
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
The texImage2D implementation in the WebGL subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 does not properly interact with Mesa drivers, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via function calls involving certain values of the level parameter.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 16 days later
· 16 days later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.8% · top 8.0% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (26)
- USN-1638-3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 51370 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-1638-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1586 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-1636-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2013:0175 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2012:1483 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 87581 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- RHSA-2012:1482 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 51434 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1583 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 51439 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 51440 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- USN-1638-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:1592 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-106.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 51359 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 56642 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MDVSA-2012:173 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2012:1585 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- firefox-teximage2d-calls-code-exec(80184) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 51381 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16748 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 51369 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 51360 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=785734 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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