CVE-2018-5187

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 60. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60, Firefox ESR < 60.1, and Firefox < 61.

Published: Oct 18, 2018
Updated: Apr 13, 2023
CVE: CVE-2018-5187
Severity: Critical
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Critical
Score: 9.8
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

Severity: High
Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

CWE-119

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
debian / debian_linux	8.0	8.0.x
debian / debian_linux	9.0	9.0.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux	16.04	16.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux	14.04	14.04.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux	17.10	17.10.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux	18.04	18.04.x
mozilla / firefox	-	61.0
mozilla / thunderbird	-	60.0
mozilla / firefox_esr	-	60.1.0

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104556
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1461324%2C1414829%2C1395246%2C1467938%2C1461619%2C1425930%2C1438556%2C1454285%2C1459568%2C1463884
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00011.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3705-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4295
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-16/
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-19/

Vulnerability Database

290,301

CVE-2018-5187