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Unscored CVE-2018-5187 EUVD-2018-16972GHSA-3w2h-f87x-m6vp

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 60 and Firefox ESR 60. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that wi…

Published Oct 18, 2018 · Updated Aug 5, 2024 · Assigned by mozilla

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Mozilla Thunderbird unspecified – < 60 60
Mozilla Firefox ESR unspecified – < 60.1 60.1
Mozilla Firefox unspecified – < 61 61

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 thunderbird 1:60.0-1 —
Debian 13 thunderbird 1:60.0-1 —
Debian 12 thunderbird 1:60.0-1 —
Debian 9 thunderbird 1:60.0-3~deb9u1 DSA-4295-1
Debian 8 thunderbird 1:60.3.0-1~deb8u1 DLA-1575-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS mozjs52 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS firefox 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 USN-3705-1
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS mozjs38 +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS firefox 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.16.04.2 USN-3705-1
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS firefox 61.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.2 USN-3705-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 MozillaThunderbird 60.2.1-3.13.1 SUSE-SU-2018:3247-1
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ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SUSE Package Hub 12 MozillaThunderbird 60.3.0-74.2 openSUSE-SU-2018:3687-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed MozillaFirefox 92.0-1.2 openSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed MozillaThunderbird 91.1.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:10601-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed firefox-esr 128.5.1-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

Advisories 8

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