CVE-2018-5148Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-416Use After Free9 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
1.6%
top 18.28%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in the compositor during certain graphics operations when a raw pointer is used instead of a reference counted one. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR < 52.7.3 and Firefox < 59.0.2.

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 Packages6 packages

CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified59.0.2
NVDmozilla/firefox< 59.0.2+1
CVEListV5mozilla/firefox_esrunspecified52.7.3

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-x8jx-j549-3mc7: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in the compositor during certain graphics operations when a raw pointer is used instead of a reference counte2022-05-14
OSV
CVE-2018-5148: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in the compositor during certain graphics operations when a raw pointer is used instead of a reference counte2018-06-11
CVEList
CVE-2018-5148: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in the compositor during certain graphics operations when a raw pointer is used instead of a reference counte2018-06-11

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerability2018-03-27
Red Hat
firefox: Use-after-free in compositor potentially allows code execution2018-03-26
Debian
CVE-2018-5148: firefox - A use-after-free vulnerability can occur in the compositor during certain graphi...2018

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5148 firefox: Use-after-free in compositor potentially allows code execution [fedora-all]2018-03-27
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5148 firefox: Use-after-free in compositor potentially allows code execution2018-03-27
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