Description
Due to large allocation checks in Angle for glsl shaders being too lenient a buffer overflow could have occurred when allocating too much private shader memory on mac OS.
*This bug only affects Firefox on macOS. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117, Firefox ESR < 115.2, and Thunderbird < 115.2.
Published: 2023-09-11
Score: 8.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-54436 Due to large allocation checks in Angle for glsl shaders being too lenient a buffer overflow could have occured when allocating too much private shader memory on mac OS. *This bug only affects Firefox on macOS. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117, Firefox ESR < 115.2, and Thunderbird < 115.2.
History

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Due to large allocation checks in Angle for glsl shaders being too lenient a buffer overflow could have occured when allocating too much private shader memory on mac OS. *This bug only affects Firefox on macOS. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117, Firefox ESR < 115.2, and Thunderbird < 115.2. Due to large allocation checks in Angle for glsl shaders being too lenient a buffer overflow could have occurred when allocating too much private shader memory on mac OS. *This bug only affects Firefox on macOS. Other operating systems are unaffected.* This vulnerability affects Firefox < 117, Firefox ESR < 115.2, and Thunderbird < 115.2.
Title Mozilla: Buffer Overflow in WebGL glGetProgramiv Buffer Overflow in WebGL glGetProgramiv

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 20:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Mozilla Firefox Firefox Esr Thunderbird
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mozilla

Published:

Updated: 2025-12-18T15:23:16.211Z

Reserved: 2023-08-29T03:36:59.231Z

Link: CVE-2023-4582

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Updated: 2024-08-02T07:31:06.561Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-09-11T09:15:09.617

Modified: 2025-12-18T16:15:51.177

Link: CVE-2023-4582

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Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2023-08-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-4582 - Bugzilla

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