Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2012-62
WebGL use-after-free and memory corruption
- Announced
- August 28, 2012
- Reporter
- miaubiz
- Impact
- Critical
- Products
- Firefox, Firefox ESR, SeaMonkey, Thunderbird, Thunderbird ESR
- Fixed in
-
- Firefox 15
- Firefox ESR 10.0.7
- SeaMonkey 2.12
- Thunderbird 15
- Thunderbird ESR 10.0.7
Description
Security researcher miaubiz used the Address Sanitizer tool to discover two WebGL issues. The first issue is a use-after-free when WebGL shaders are called after being destroyed. The second issue exposes a problem with Mesa drivers on Linux, leading to a potentially exploitable crash.