CVE-2018-12406 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-185 — Incorrect Regular ExpressionCWE-787 — Out-of-bounds WriteCWE-125 — Out-of-bounds Read8 documents7 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
0.4%
top 41.02%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxCanonical Ubuntu Linux
Timeline
PublishedFeb 28
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 63. 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 < 64.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 64
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 64.0
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 64.0+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+2
▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 64.0-1 (sid)

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-jw9g-hr3v-p6jp: Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 63↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2018-12406: Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 63↗2018-12-11
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2018-12-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Red Hat
firefox: memory safety bugs showing evidence of memory corruption leading to run arbitrary code↗2018-12-11
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2018-12-11
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Debian
CVE-2018-12406: firefox - Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in ...↗2018
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-12406 firefox: memory safety bugs showing evidence of memory corruption leading to run arbitrary code↗2019-03-26
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