Description
Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 57. 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 Firefox < 58.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040270
Issue Tracking, Permissions Required x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1413857%2C1412653%2C1418966%2C1427126%2C1412942%2C1401459%2C1364399%2C1382851%2C1423770%2C1401420%2C1281965%2C1389561%2C1409179%2C1416879%2C1421786%2C1426449%2C1416799%2C1400912%2C1415158%2C1415748%2C1415788%2C1371891%2C1415770%2C1416519%2C1413143%2C1418841%2C1384544%2C1410140%2C1411631%2C1412313%2C1412641%2C1412645%2C1412646%2C1412648%2C1261175
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3544-1/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102786
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-02/
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0203
EPSS Percentile
84.0%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (4)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
17.10
mozilla/firefox
< 57.0.4
Published
Jun 11, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026