Description
Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 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 Firefox < 61.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-01
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-15/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104557
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041193
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3705-1/
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1464872%2C1463329%2C1419373%2C1412882%2C1413033%2C1444673%2C1454448%2C1453505%2C1438671
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0162
EPSS Percentile
82.1%
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 (5)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
17.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.04
mozilla/firefox
< 61.0
Published
Oct 18, 2018
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026