CVE-2018-5187

CRITICAL

Firefox <61 - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (10)

Core 10
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/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00011.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201811-13
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4295
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-16/
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-19/
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104556
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3705-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0222
EPSS Percentile 84.7%
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 (8)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 17.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
mozilla/firefox < 60.1.0
mozilla/thunderbird < 60.0
Published Oct 18, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026