CVE-2018-5160 — Use After Free in Mozilla Firefox

CWE-416 — Use After FreeCWE-908 — Use of Uninitialized Resource10 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
2.4%
top 15.01%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Mozilla FirefoxDebian FirefoxCanonical Ubuntu Linux
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 13

Description

WebRTC can use a "WrappedI420Buffer" pixel buffer but the owning image object can be freed while it is still in use. This can result in the WebRTC encoder using uninitialized memory, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

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-h8xw-9226-rgwq: WebRTC can use a "WrappedI420Buffer" pixel buffer but the owning image object can be freed while it is still in use↗2022-05-13
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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-2018-5160: WebRTC can use a "WrappedI420Buffer" pixel buffer but the owning image object can be freed while it is still in use↗2018-05-11
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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: Uninitialized memory use by WebRTC encoder↗2018-05-09
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Debian
CVE-2018-5160: firefox - WebRTC can use a "WrappedI420Buffer" pixel buffer but the owning image object ca...↗2018
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5160 Mozilla: Uninitialized memory use by WebRTC encoder↗2018-05-09
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