CVE-2012-5835

critical
Published 2012-11-21 · Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Integer overflow in the WebGL subsystem in Mozilla Firefox before 17.0, Firefox ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, Thunderbird before 17.0, Thunderbird ESR 10.x before 10.0.11, and SeaMonkey before 2.14 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (invalid write operation) via crafted data.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=790879

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2012/mfsa2012-106.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu10.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu11.10affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.04affected
ubuntu ubuntu12.10affected
suse suse11.4affected
suse suse12.1affected
suse suse12.2affected
suse suse10affected
suse suse11affected
redhat rhel5.0affected
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel6.3affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
mozillafirefox{"endExcluding":"10.0.11"}10.0.11
mozillaseamonkey{"endExcluding":"2.14"}2.14
mozillathunderbird{"endExcluding":"17.0"}17.0
mozillathunderbird_esr{"endExcluding":"10.0.11"}10.0.11

References

CWEs

CWE-190

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.