CVE-2011-3457: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 3.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The OpenGL implementation in Apple Mac OS X before 10.7.3 does not properly perform OpenGL Shading Language (aka GLSL) compilation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted program.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.7.2; version 10.6.0 only; version 10.6.1 only; version 10.6.2 only; version 10.6.3 only; version 10.6.4 only; …
• Apple Mac OS X Server: up to and including 10.7.2; version 10.6.0 only; version 10.6.1 only; version 10.6.2 only; version 10.6.3 only; version 10.6.4 only; …

Published 2012-02-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.