CVE-2012-5833 is a critical vulnerability in the WebGL subsystem of Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, and SeaMonkey, affecting versions before 17.0 and ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, as well as products from Canonical, OpenSUSE, Red Hat, and SUSE. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service through memory corruption and application crashes due to improper interaction with Mesa drivers. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability has a high severity, requiring medium attack complexity but no authentication, and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 10.0.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 17.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 2.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 17.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 10.0.11CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird_esr:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.