CVE-2018-12407 — 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 Buffer8 documents7 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
3.1%
top 13.10%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxCanonical Ubuntu Linux
Timeline
PublishedFeb 28
Latest updateMay 14

Description

A buffer overflow occurs when drawing and validating elements with the ANGLE graphics library, used for WebGL content, when working with the VertexBuffer11 module. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 64.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

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

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-4562-p2fq-7gg7: A buffer overflow occurs when drawing and validating elements with the ANGLE graphics library, used for WebGL content, when working with the VertexBuf↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2018-12407: A buffer overflow occurs when drawing and validating elements with the ANGLE graphics library, used for WebGL content, when working with the VertexBuf↗2018-12-11
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2018-12-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2018-12-11
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Red Hat
firefox: buffer overflow with ANGLE library when using VertexBuffer11 module↗2018-12-11
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Debian
CVE-2018-12407: firefox - A buffer overflow occurs when drawing and validating elements with the ANGLE gra...↗2018
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💬Community

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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-12407 firefox: buffer overflow with ANGLE library when using VertexBuffer11 module↗2019-03-26
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