CVE-2012-3967
The WebGL implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 15.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, Thunderbird before 15.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.7, and SeaMonkey before 2.12 on Linux, when a large number of sampler uniforms are used, does not properly interact with Mesa drivers, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) via a crafted web site.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-787
- EPSS score
- 4.4% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-3911)
- Published
- August 29, 2012
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-3911 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- canonical / ubuntu linux
- linux / linux kernel
- mozilla / firefox
- mozilla / seamonkey
- mozilla / thunderbird
- mozilla / thunderbird esr
- opensuse / opensuse
- redhat / enterprise linux desktop
- redhat / enterprise linux desktop
- redhat / enterprise linux eus
- redhat / enterprise linux server
- redhat / enterprise linux server
- redhat / enterprise linux workstation
- redhat / enterprise linux workstation
- suse / linux enterprise desktop
- suse / linux enterprise desktop
- suse / linux enterprise server
- suse / linux enterprise server
- suse / linux enterprise server
- suse / linux enterprise software development kit
- suse / linux enterprise software development kit
Certified products that may be affected
3 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified products, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 on IBM System z - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0852-2013 - archived
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2 including KVM virtualization - SUSE Linux Products Gmbh - Common Criteria BSI-DSZ-CC-0787-2013 - archived
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 OpenSSH-Server Cryptographic Module - Red Hat®, Inc. - FIPS 140 1384 - historical
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00028.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00011.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-09/msg00014.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1210.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1211.html(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-62.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55277(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-1(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1548-2(Third Party Advisory)
- http://www.xerox.com/download/security/security-bulletin/16287-4d6b7b0c81f7b/cert_XRX13-003_v1.0.pdf(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777028(Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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