CVE-2018-5156 — Improper Input Validation in Mozilla Firefox
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
OSV4.3
EPSS
3.1%
top 13.17%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedOct 18
Latest updateMay 14
Description
A vulnerability can occur when capturing a media stream when the media source type is changed as the capture is occurring. This can result in stream data being cast to the wrong type causing a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 60, Firefox ESR < 60.1, Firefox ESR < 52.9, and Firefox < 61.
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 Packages10 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04, Enterprise Linux 7.6, 7.5
🔴Vulnerability Details
5GHSA▶
GHSA-x98g-g264-xxpx: A vulnerability can occur when capturing a media stream when the media source type is changed as the capture is occurring↗2022-05-14
OSV▶
CVE-2018-5156: A vulnerability can occur when capturing a media stream when the media source type is changed as the capture is occurring↗2018-10-18
CVEList▶
CVE-2018-5156: A vulnerability can occur when capturing a media stream when the media source type is changed as the capture is occurring↗2018-10-18
📋Vendor Advisories
3💬Community
1Bugzilla▶
CVE-2018-5156 Mozilla: Media recorder segmentation fault when track type is changed during capture↗2018-06-26