CVE-2018-18502 — 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 Buffer6 documents5 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
4.0%
top 11.63%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxCanonical Ubuntu Linux
Timeline
PublishedFeb 5
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 64. 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 < 65.

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

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 65
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 65.0
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 65.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+2
▶debiandebian/firefox< firefox 65.0-1 (sid)

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-pv8w-m2qh-gvj6: Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 64↗2022-05-14
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2019-01-30
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OSV
CVE-2018-18502: Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 64↗2019-01-30
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2019-01-30
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Debian
CVE-2018-18502: firefox - Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in ...↗2018
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