CVE-2018-5180
published 2018-06-11CVE-2018-5180: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur during WebGL operations. While this results in a potentially exploitable crash, the vulnerability is limited because…
PriorityP434high7.5CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
2.31%
81.3th percentile
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur during WebGL operations. While this results in a potentially exploitable crash, the vulnerability is limited because the memory is freed and reused in a brief window of time during the freeing of the same callstack. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.
Affected
13 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | — | — |
| debian | firefox | < firefox 60.0-1 (sid) | firefox 60.0-1 (sid) |
| mozilla | firefox | < 60.0 | 60.0 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 60.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | 60.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 60.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 | 60.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 60.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 | 60.0+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 60.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 | 60.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 60.0+build2-0ubuntu1 | 60.0+build2-0ubuntu1 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= 0 < 60.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 | 60.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 |
| mozilla | firefox | >= unspecified < 60 | 60 |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.07.5HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv9.8CRITICAL
vendor_ubuntu9.8CRITICAL
vendor_debian7.5HIGH
vendor_redhat7.5HIGH
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Ubuntu
Firefox regression
vendor_ubuntu·2018-05-18·CVSS 9.8
[CRITICAL] Firefox regression
Title: Firefox regression
Summary: USN-3645-1 caused a regression in Firefox.
USN-3645-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused an issue
where users experienced long UI pauses in some circumsances. This update
fixes the problem.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, bypass same-origin restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS)
attacks, install lightweight themes without user interaction, spoof the
filename in the downloads panel, or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-5150, CVE-2018-5151, CVE-2018-5153, CVE-2018-5154,
CVE-2018-5155,
Ubuntu
Firefox vulnerabilities
vendor_ubuntu·2018-05-11·CVSS 9.8
CVE-2018-5150 [CRITICAL] Firefox vulnerabilities
Title: Firefox vulnerabilities
Summary: Firefox could be made to crash or run programs as your login if it
opened a malicious website.
Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, bypass same-origin restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS)
attacks, install lightweight themes without user interaction, spoof the
filename in the downloads panel, or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-5150, CVE-2018-5151, CVE-2018-5153, CVE-2018-5154,
CVE-2018-5155, CVE-2018-5157, CVE-2018-5158, CVE-2018-5159, CVE-2018-5160,
CVE-2018-5163, CVE-2018-5164, CVE-2018-5168, CVE-2018-5173, CVE-2018-5175,
CVE-2018-5177, CVE-2018-5180)
Multip
Red Hat
Mozilla: heap-use-after-free in mozilla::WebGLContext::DrawElementsInstanced
vendor_redhat·2018-05-09·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-5180 [HIGH] CWE-416 Mozilla: heap-use-after-free in mozilla::WebGLContext::DrawElementsInstanced
Mozilla: heap-use-after-free in mozilla::WebGLContext::DrawElementsInstanced
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur during WebGL operations. While this results in a potentially exploitable crash, the vulnerability is limited because the memory is freed and reused in a brief window of time during the freeing of the same callstack. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) - Not affected
Package: firefox (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) - Not affected
Package: thunderbird (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7) - Not affected
Debian
CVE-2018-5180: firefox - A use-after-free vulnerability can occur during WebGL operations. While this res...
vendor_debian·2018·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-5180 [HIGH] CVE-2018-5180: firefox - A use-after-free vulnerability can occur during WebGL operations. While this res...
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur during WebGL operations. While this results in a potentially exploitable crash, the vulnerability is limited because the memory is freed and reused in a brief window of time during the freeing of the same callstack. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.
Scope: local
sid: resolved (fixed in 60.0-1)
GHSA
GHSA-976p-wp36-p43w: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur during WebGL operations
ghsa_unreviewed·2022-05-14
CVE-2018-5180 [HIGH] CWE-416 GHSA-976p-wp36-p43w: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur during WebGL operations
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur during WebGL operations. While this results in a potentially exploitable crash, the vulnerability is limited because the memory is freed and reused in a brief window of time during the freeing of the same callstack. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.
OSV
firefox regression
osv·2018-05-18·CVSS 9.8
[CRITICAL] firefox regression
firefox regression
USN-3645-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox. The update caused an issue
where users experienced long UI pauses in some circumsances. This update
fixes the problem.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Original advisory details:
Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, bypass same-origin restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS)
attacks, install lightweight themes without user interaction, spoof the
filename in the downloads panel, or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-5150, CVE-2018-5151, CVE-2018-5153, CVE-2018-5154,
CVE-2018-5155, CVE-2018-5157, CVE-2018-5158, CVE-2018-5159, CVE-2018-5160,
OSV
firefox vulnerabilities
osv·2018-05-11·CVSS 9.8
CVE-2018-5150 [CRITICAL] firefox vulnerabilities
firefox vulnerabilities
Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were
tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could
potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service via application
crash, bypass same-origin restrictions, conduct cross-site scripting (XSS)
attacks, install lightweight themes without user interaction, spoof the
filename in the downloads panel, or execute arbitrary code.
(CVE-2018-5150, CVE-2018-5151, CVE-2018-5153, CVE-2018-5154,
CVE-2018-5155, CVE-2018-5157, CVE-2018-5158, CVE-2018-5159, CVE-2018-5160,
CVE-2018-5163, CVE-2018-5164, CVE-2018-5168, CVE-2018-5173, CVE-2018-5175,
CVE-2018-5177, CVE-2018-5180)
Multiple security issues were discovered with WebExtensions. If a user
were tricked in to installing a specially craft
OSV
CVE-2018-5180: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur during WebGL operations
osv·2018-05-11·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-5180 [HIGH] CVE-2018-5180: A use-after-free vulnerability can occur during WebGL operations
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur during WebGL operations. While this results in a potentially exploitable crash, the vulnerability is limited because the memory is freed and reused in a brief window of time during the freeing of the same callstack. This vulnerability affects Firefox < 60.
No detection rules found.
No public exploits indexed.
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-5180 Mozilla: heap-use-after-free in mozilla::WebGLContext::DrawElementsInstanced
bugzilla·2018-05-09·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2018-5180 [HIGH] CVE-2018-5180 Mozilla: heap-use-after-free in mozilla::WebGLContext::DrawElementsInstanced
CVE-2018-5180 Mozilla: heap-use-after-free in mozilla::WebGLContext::DrawElementsInstanced
A use-after-free vulnerability can occur during WebGL operations. While this results in a potentially exploitable crash, the vulnerability is limited because the memory is freed and reused in a brief window of time during the freeing of the same callstack.
External Reference:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/#CVE-2018-5180
Discussion:
Acknowledgments:
Name: the Mozilla project
Upstream: Nils
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-5180 glibc: DNS resolver NULL pointer dereference with crafted record type
bugzilla·2015-08-03·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2015-5180 [HIGH] CVE-2015-5180 glibc: DNS resolver NULL pointer dereference with crafted record type
CVE-2015-5180 glibc: DNS resolver NULL pointer dereference with crafted record type
It was discovered that the glibc DNS resolver dereferenced a NULL pointer
when processing a specific, but valid resource record type.
Acknowledgements:
Name: Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security)
Discussion:
Created glibc tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1251403]
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Upstream bug:
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18784
Upstream patch:
https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=fc82b0a2dfe7dbd35671c10510a8da1043d746a5
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This issue has been addressed in the following products:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Via RHSA-2018:0805 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0805
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104139http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040896https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1444086https://usn.ubuntu.com/3645-1/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/104139http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040896https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1444086https://usn.ubuntu.com/3645-1/https://www.mozilla.org/security/advisories/mfsa2018-11/
2018-06-11
Published