CVE-2011-3002 — Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine (ANGLE), as used in Mozilla Firefox before 7.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.4, does not validate the return value of a GrowAtomTable function call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger a memory-allocation error and a resulting buffer overflow

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Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine (ANGLE), as used in Mozilla Firefox before 7.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.4, does not validate the return value of a GrowAtomTable function call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger a memory-allocation error and a resulting buffer overflow

Published Sep 29, 2011

9.3

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 3.35%

Description

Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine (ANGLE), as used in Mozilla Firefox before 7.0 and SeaMonkey before 2.4, does not validate the return value of a GrowAtomTable function call, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via vectors that trigger a memory-allocation error and a resulting buffer overflow.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

3.35% 0.03346

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.03346

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (10 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	3.35% (0.03346)	88.27th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	3.35% (0.03346)	87.06th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Aug 20, 2025	2.07% (0.02067)	83.19th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	3.93% (0.03932)	87.55th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	1.25% (0.01254)	86.15th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
May 3, 2024	1.25% (0.01254)	85.44th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	1.25% (0.01254)	83.41th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	4.15% (0.04146)	86.08th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	4.15% (0.04146)	84.67th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	4.15% (0.04146)	68.31th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-119

Buffer Overflow

References (4)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:141
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAThird Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-41.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680840
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14388
vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALThird Party Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:141		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAThird Party Advisory
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2011/mfsa2011-41.html		x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680840		x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14388		vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Sep 29, 2011

Updated Aug 6, 2024

Reserved Aug 1, 2011

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CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2011-3002

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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