Bug 1009218 (CVE-2013-1729) - CVE-2013-1729 Mozilla: WebGL Information disclosure through OS X NVIDIA graphic drivers (MFSA 2013-86)
Summary: CVE-2013-1729 Mozilla: WebGL Information disclosure through OS X NVIDIA graph...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2013-1729
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1004291
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-09-18 02:10 UTC by Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala
Modified: 2023-05-12 00:06 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-09-18 02:16:34 UTC
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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
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