75842 : Mozilla Multiple Products WebGL ANGLE GrowAtomTable() Function Overflow
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Timeline

Disclosure Date
2011-09-27

Description

<em style='font-weight:bold;'>(Description Provided by <a href="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2011-3002" target="_blank">CVE</a>)</em> : Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine (ANGLE), as used in Mozilla Firefox before 7.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.4, does not validate the return value of a GrowAtomTable function call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger a memory-allocation error and a resulting buffer overflow.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access, Context Dependent
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Private
Disclosure: Vendor Verified, Coordinated Disclosure
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade Firefox to version 7.0 or higher and SeaMonkey to version 2.4 or higher, as they have been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

Related OSVDB ID: 75834 75835 75836 75837 75838 75839 75840 75841 75842 75843 75844 75845 75846 75847
OVAL ID: 14388
CVE ID: 2011-3002 (see also: NVD)
Secunia Advisory ID: 46124 46171 46204 46256 51766
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-09/msg00029.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2011-10/msg00010.html
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-201301-01.xml
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-41.html
http://www.palemoon.org/releasenotes-ng.shtml
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680840 [ Auth Req'd ]
Other Advisory URL: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:141
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16576-4c596b2a88f00/cert_XRX12-006_v1.01.pdf

Credit

Unknown or Incomplete

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2011-09-29 | Disagree?

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