CVE-2018-5146 — Out-of-bounds Write in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds WriteCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow28 documents9 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
NVD8.8NVD6.5CNA8.8OSV8.8
EPSS
44.8%
top 2.41%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
13
Mozilla FirefoxMozilla Firefox ESRMozilla Thunderbird+10 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

The libtremor library has the same flaw as CVE-2018-5146. This library is used by Firefox in place of libvorbis on Android and ARM platforms. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.7.2 and Firefox < 59.0.1.

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 Packages14 packages

▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 59.0.1
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 52.7.2+1
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified — 52.7.2
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 59.0.1+build1-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+1
▶NVDxiph.org/libvorbis1.3.2 — 1.3.6

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, Enterprise Linux 7.4, 7.6, 7.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

9
GHSA
GHSA-qxgw-7whg-72j2: An out of bounds memory write while processing Vorbis audio data was reported through the Pwn2Own contest↗2022-05-14
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GHSA
GHSA-mxw3-h8f2-qrw5: The libtremor library has the same flaw as CVE-2018-5146↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2020-20412: lib/codebook↗2020-12-26
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OSV
CVE-2018-5147: The libtremor library has the same flaw as CVE-2018-5146↗2018-06-11
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CVEList
CVE-2018-5147: The libtremor library has the same flaw as CVE-2018-5146↗2018-06-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

7
Android
CVE-2018-5146: Android Security Bulletin 2018-06-01 CVE: CVE-2018-5146 Severity: CRITICAL Type: RCE Affected AOSP versions: 6↗2018-06-01
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Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities↗2018-03-29
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Ubuntu
libvorbis vulnerability↗2018-03-22
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08)↗2018-03-16
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerability↗2018-03-16
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💬Community

9
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5146 mozjs45: Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08) [fedora-all]↗2018-03-19
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5146 mozjs38: Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08) [fedora-all]↗2018-03-19
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5146 thunderbird: Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08) [fedora-all]↗2018-03-19
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5146 mozjs38: Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08) [epel-7]↗2018-03-19
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5146 mingw-libvorbis: Mozilla: Vorbis audio processing out of bounds write (MFSA 2018-08) [fedora-all]↗2018-03-19
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