Bug 1009218 (CVE-2013-1729)

Summary: CVE-2013-1729 Mozilla: WebGL Information disclosure through OS X NVIDIA graphic drivers (MFSA 2013-86)
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-09-18 02:10:52 UTC 
Mozilla developer Victor Porof reported a flaw in the NVIDIA OS X graphic drivers that would allow portions of a user's desktop or other visible applications to be incorporated into WebGL canvases. This could result in personal information becoming available to web content. 


External Reference:

http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2013/mfsa2013-86.html


Acknowledgements:

Red Hat would like to thank the Mozilla project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Victor Porof as the original reporter.

Statement:

This issue does not affect the version of firefox and thunderbird as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6