CVE-2018-5178Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Mozilla Firefox ESR

Severity
8.1HIGHNVD
OSV9.8
EPSS
18.2%
top 4.80%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Latest updateMay 14

Description

A buffer overflow was found during UTF8 to Unicode string conversion within JavaScript with extremely large amounts of data. This vulnerability requires the use of a malicious or vulnerable legacy extension in order to occur. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird ESR < 52.8, Thunderbird < 52.8, and Firefox ESR < 52.8.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages11 packages

CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbirdunspecified52.8
NVDmozilla/thunderbird< 52.8.0
CVEListV5mozilla/thunderbird_esrunspecified52.8
Debianmozilla/thunderbird< 1:52.8.0-1+3

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, Ubuntu Linux 14.04, 16.04, 17.10, 18.04, Enterprise Linux 7.6, 7.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
GHSA-2fp8-wvjf-2gv9: A buffer overflow was found during UTF8 to Unicode string conversion within JavaScript with extremely large amounts of data2022-05-14
OSV
CVE-2018-5178: A buffer overflow was found during UTF8 to Unicode string conversion within JavaScript with extremely large amounts of data2018-06-11
CVEList
CVE-2018-5178: A buffer overflow was found during UTF8 to Unicode string conversion within JavaScript with extremely large amounts of data2018-06-11
OSV
thunderbird vulnerabilities2018-05-25

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
Thunderbird vulnerabilities2018-05-25
Red Hat
Mozilla: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string conversion through legacy extension2018-05-09
Debian
CVE-2018-5178: firefox-esr - A buffer overflow was found during UTF8 to Unicode string conversion within Java...2018

💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5178 Mozilla: Buffer overflow during UTF-8 to Unicode string conversion through legacy extension2018-05-09
CVE-2018-5178 — Mozilla Firefox ESR vulnerability | cvebase