{"id":485,"date":"2011-06-16T18:44:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T01:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/?p=485"},"modified":"2011-06-16T20:21:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T03:21:30","slug":"webgl-graphics-memory-stealing-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2011\/06\/16\/webgl-graphics-memory-stealing-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"WebGL graphics memory stealing issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Issue<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is a specific <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contextis.com\/resources\/blog\/webgl2\">security issue with the WebGL implementation<\/a> in Firefox 4. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Impact to users<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This issue allows attackers to capture screen shots of private or confidential information. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Status<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla is aware of this bug and has issued a fix that will be released with the next version of Firefox, tentatively scheduled for June 21. This is a Firefox-specific implementation issue not a WebGL specification issue. In the interim, to protect themselves users can update to <a href=\"http:\/\/mozilla.com\/firefox\/channel\">Firefox Beta<\/a> or temporarily disable WebGL. To disable WebGL, in Firefox go to about:config and set webgl.disabled to true.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Credit<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bug was reported by Context. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Issue There is a specific security issue with the WebGL implementation in Firefox 4. Impact to users This issue allows attackers to capture screen shots of private or confidential information. &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2011\/06\/16\/webgl-graphics-memory-stealing-issue\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WebGL graphics memory stealing issue - Mozilla Security Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2011\/06\/16\/webgl-graphics-memory-stealing-issue\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Lucas Adamski\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2011\/06\/16\/webgl-graphics-memory-stealing-issue\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/security\/2011\/06\/16\/webgl-graphics-memory-stealing-issue\/\",\"name\":\"WebGL graphics memory stealing issue - 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