Secunia Security Advisory - Context has reported a weakness in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive information.
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TITLE:
Mozilla Firefox WebGL Graphics Memory Information Disclosure Weakness
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA44972
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RELEASE DATE:
2011-06-18
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DESCRIPTION:
Context has reported a weakness in Mozilla Firefox, which can be
exploited by malicious people to disclose potentially sensitive
information.
An unspecified error in the WebGL implementation can be exploited to
disclose certain information e.g. screenshots of a victim's desktop.
The weakness is reported in version 4.0.1. Other versions may also be
affected.
SOLUTION:
The vendor recommends to disable WebGL. The vendor has scheduled a
fix for 2011-06-21.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Context.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
Mozilla:
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2011/06/16/webgl-graphics-memory-stealing-issue/
Context:
http://www.contextis.com/resources/blog/webgl2/
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