CVE-2018-5151 — 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-120 — Classic Buffer Overflow11 documents8 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
2.7%
top 14.00%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxCanonical Ubuntu Linux
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 59. 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 < 60.

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 60.0-1 (sid)
▶CVEListV5mozilla/firefoxunspecified — 60
▶NVDmozilla/firefox< 60.0
▶Ubuntumozilla/firefox< 60.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+5

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-cr3m-h7rp-5333: Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 59↗2022-05-14
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OSV
firefox regression↗2018-05-18
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OSV
firefox vulnerabilities↗2018-05-11
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OSV
CVE-2018-5151: Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 59↗2018-05-11
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💥Exploits & PoCs

1
Exploit-DB
VideoInsight WebClient 5 - SQL Injection↗2018-06-20
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📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
Firefox regression↗2018-05-18
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Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities↗2018-05-11
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Red Hat
Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 60↗2018-05-09
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Debian
CVE-2018-5151: firefox - Memory safety bugs were reported in Firefox 59. Some of these bugs showed eviden...↗2018
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5151 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 60↗2018-05-09
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